Brian Barnett

Pete is stuck with his weird grandparents for a whole week. To make matters worse, they live next door to a creepy old graveyard. After going in the graveyard alone one night, Pete finds himself face-to-face with a living skeleton, Benny "Bones" Barton.The only way for Pete to leave the graveyard is to win Benny's game, a scavenger hunt. Worse yet, if Benny wins, the dead get to come back to the living world. And Benny is a trickster and a cheater.

Graveyard Scavenger Hunt

Lynn Braden

This was an odd little book, not even 100 pages. It was a scary story about a boy named Pete who reluctantly visits his grandparents and stumbles into a nearby graveyard at night. His visit unearths, literally, Benny "Bones" Barton who challenges him to a scavenger hunt. Pete doesn't want to participate, but Benny tells him that if he doesn't, every dead person in the world will come back to life as skeletons and basically take over the world. 

Definitely a horror story, this is the first book in a series of books about Pete and his grandparents. I didn't really like the book because horror isn't one of my favorite genres, but for a reluctant reader looking for a good scary story, this just might fit the bill.

Graveyard Scavenger Hunt

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