When I was a really little girl, my mom would tuck me into bed at night. It starts out with one of the most amazing openings: This book is SO weird but very enjoyable.

'Quiet! Here comes the Beast from the East.

It's not really scary at all, but it's a neat little adventure story, and the classic Goosebumps twist at the end is actually half decent. Overall, you could do a lot worse than The Beast from the East if you're looking to read a Goosebumps book. These were clearly just rules Stine was making up on the fly to keep the story going, and this recurring plot device became stale rather quickly. Stine's constantly having the beasts mention previously unknown rules in the middle of the game. One thing I found really annoying was R.L. The danger to the kids is real and knowing that they will actually die if they fail is uncommonly dramatic and high stakes for this series, which made this one a bit more interesting than the average entry. This one wasn't bad! It's one of the better-written and less repetitive entries I've reread so far in the original Goosebumps series. Can they avoid this grim fate and beat the beasts at their own game? If the kids lose the game of tag they will be eaten by the beasts. There they run into a group of giant, furry, blue beasts that force them to play a game called the Beast from the East, which is essentially tag. In The Beast from the East, three siblings-Ginger and her unimaginatively-named younger brothers Pat and Nat (who are also identical twins! who would have thought?)-get lost on a camping trip with their parents and stumble into a strange part of the woods filled with purple umbrella-shaped trees and other odd plants and animals. 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.

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