Stine is the variety of descriptions he gives for the characters in his stories. One thing that has long impressed me about R.L. The series seems to have gone off the deep end. Highlights: a boy named Michael who everyone calls 'Moose.' I know a guy named Moose in real life, so. Finally Joe figures out that they are scared of his dog whistle and the children use it to escape. They are going to torture the children by tickling them, jumping on them using their bodies as trampolines, finding out if the children 'bounce,' etc. And they trap the children in the basement of a lawn store. After Stine's good ideas and fun previous books, it's as if he's just making up the craziest stuff possible. Their evil deeds involve smashing tomatoes, painting smiley faces on casabas, throwing white paint on a red Jeep, throwing black paint on a house. Lawn gnomes? That come alive at night? Come on. Joe's dad also loves lawn decorations, and brings home two evil lawn gnomes from the garden store. Moose's dad and Joe's dad are next door neighbors who are engaged in a 'garden war' involving competing rather seriously as to who can grow the biggest tomatoes, etc.

Moose is Joe's huge, very physical and energetic best friend. Stine has a really hard time creating likable children, I've noticed. His sister, Mindy, age 14, super-organized. Joe is 12 - a goofball, prankster, and general brat. Okay, based on this book and the previous The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, I have to conclude that Stine has lost his mind. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences.

Revenge of lawn gnomes