The Lurking Lima Bean
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Chapter Book · Ages 7–10 · 2021

The Lurking Lima Bean

By Joe McGee, Teo Skaffa (Illustrator)

Book #2 in the Night Frights series

A girl's uneaten dinner turns into a relentless nightmare.

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144 pages
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In Wolver Hollow, where eerie events are the norm, Madeline Harper faces a peculiar terror. Refusing to eat her lima beans, she unwittingly awakens a vengeful force. As strange lights flicker and shadows loom, Madeline must confront a relentless vegetable determined to teach her a lesson. Will she find a way to escape this culinary curse, or will the lima bean have the last word? Dive into a world where dinner fights back and nothing is as it seems.

From the publisher

In this second installment in the spooky and silly series that’s perfect for fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a girl’s dinner comes back to haunt her! Wolver Hollow is not a normal town. The adults are too busy shuffling off to work at the old coffin factory to notice or care, but the kids know all about monsters, ghosts, and strange lights in the sky. Strange things happen in Wolver Hollow. Creepy things. Madeline Harper does not like lima beans and she’s not afraid to make that clear. But when she gets sent to bed for not eating her vegetables, she’ll find something far worse than her mother’s frustration. A lima bean scorned is a terrible thing and it will not stop until Madeline Harper eats her vegetables!

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Format
Paperback
Pages
144
Reading age
7–10
Audience
Juvenile Reader
Lexile
670L
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Book details

Reading levels
ATOS
~4.3
F&P level
~P
Publication
Published
August 31, 2021
Publisher
Aladdin
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781534480919

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