No Trick-or-Treating!
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–12 · 2012 · Est. 4.5 hour read

No Trick-or-Treating!

By P.J. Night

Part of the You're Invited to a Creepover series

A small town's Halloween is too real, hiding terrifying secrets.

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191 pages· 33,756 words· Est. 4.5 hour read
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Ashley McDowell moves to Heaton Corners, a seemingly charming town with a dark Halloween secret. Forbidden from trick-or-treating, she defies the rules, only to find the night is more real—and terrifying—than she imagined. What sinister truths lurk beneath the town's festive facade?

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Halloween is more than haunted in this superscary superspecial addition to Spotlight’s popular tween horror series. When Ashley McDowell’s parents first told her they were moving from the big city to a one-stoplight farm town, she was convinced that she was going to hate living in Heaton Corners. But to Ashley’s surprise, she loves it. Everyone is super welcoming, especially her new friends. Plus, it’s October and there’s the town’s Harvest Festival, and, of course, Halloween. But when Ashley starts making plans for Halloween night, she is shocked to find out that her new friends are forbidden to go trick-or-treating. Ashley convinces them to sleep over at her house and go trick-or-treating anyway, but she soon discovers that Halloween in Heaton Corners isn’t like Halloween anywhere else. For one thing, everything seems so much more real…too real. Ashley can’t help but think that maybe Heaton Corners doesn’t need tricks and disguises to be terrifying on Halloween night…. This exceedingly scary superspecial features a glow-in-the-dark cover and bursts through Level 5 on the Creep-o-Meter.

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Format
Paperback
Pages
191
Words
33,756
Reading age
8–12
Audience
Middle Grade
Lexile
720L
Themes & topics
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
4.6
F&P level
~Q
AR points
5
AR interest level
MG
AR quiz
153195
Publication
Published
August 7, 2012
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781442450530

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