Hide by Kiersten White

 

     

           Hide by Kiersten White - 240 pages 

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught.

The prize: enough money to change everything.

Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize their dream futures or escape their haunting pasts--Mack feels sure that she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that.

It's the reason she's alive, and her family isn't.

But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes this competition is more sinister than even she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.

Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide, but nowhere to run.

          

          While the idea of this book was promising I found the middle to be a bit boring and hard to get                through, however, it came together in the end.  

The Beast from the East (Goosebumps #43) by R.L. Stine

The Beast from the East (Goosebumps #43) by R.L. Stine-118 pages

Ginger and her identical twin brothers, Nat and Pat, go on a camping trip with their parents. However, they get separated from their parents and get lost in the nearby woods. Soon after, big, blue, furry beasts find them and one of them named Fleg tags Ginger and says she's It. She's the Beast from the East, who is the loser. She has until sundown to tag one of the several beasts or she will be eaten because that's what happens to the Beast from the East. Will Ginger tag one of the beasts before it's too late or will she and her brothers get eaten? This one has another abrupt, signature Goosebumps ending. I have enjoyed reading Goosebumps this month.