Who Will You Meet on Scary Street?

Christine Tagg. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $14.95 (22pp) ISBN 978-0-316-25606-3

Monsters pop up everywhere in Who Will You Meet on Scary Street? by Christine Tagg, illus. by Charles Fuge. A gruesome witch of a teacher greets the students at Scary School, where ""junior ghoul[s]... learn to spell,/ fly brooms as well,/ and how to screech and wail."" (Sept.)

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