How I Got My Shrunken Head (Goosebumps, #39) by R.L. Stine

How I Got My Shrunken Head (Goosebumps, #39) by R.L. Stine-119 pages

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Mark is gifted a shrunken head by a strange visitor who says she works with his Aunt Benna. The visitor's name is Carolyn and she says Aunt Benna wants to see Mark. She is on the jungle island Baladora researching. The shrunken head glows that night when Mark says his magic word that he thinks he invented as a little kid while playing jungle video games. He's always loved the jungle and he doesn't quite know why. Carolyn says he has Jungle Magic, so maybe that's why. Upon arrival on Baladora, Mark's Aunt Benna isn't there to greet him. Carolyn and her colleague, Dr. Hawlings and Kareen, Dr. Hawlings' daughter, all say she's gone missing and they need to find her. Mark finds Aunt Benna's journal that says the others on the island want to kill her and she had to hide the Jungle Magic so they couldn't get it. Does Mark really have Jungle Magic and just what is it, anyway? Will he find Aunt Benna and will she and Mark escape Baladora? This was a fun read.