Monday, October 24, 2011

Tanglewood Terror / Kurtis Scaletta / 264 pages / Horror

Thirteen year old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house.  His is intrigued by them, decides to use them for his science report, and begins studying them.  Eric loves football in general, and the Patriot in particular.  He has a falling out with his football team over a pig he is taking care of.  Eric meets and becomes friends with a Mandy, a runaway from his mom's school.  Mandy thinks the mushrooms are more than just a topic for scientific research.  She thinks they are dangerous, and, in fact, destroyed the town 200 years ago, except for the Meeting House.  Eric, Mandy, and Eric's younger brother, Bryan, use scientific research, the manuscript of a  well-known writer, and sheer determination to stop the spread of the killer fungi.

Horror

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