I'm Gonna Get You! / Dotti Enderle / 79 pages

This book is second-third grade level and is second in a series of Ghost Detectors.  It should be interesting to kids in those grades and is fairly interesting with fair pictures.

That being said, I was not happy with the one-dimensional characters.  The sister is depicted as nasty, mean, and ugly. Maybe a brother might not appreciate his sister, but this went beyond in terms of no redeeming features.  In the same manner, his "best" friend sidekick, a black boy, is depicted as weird, dopey, and lacking social skills (ie: having his finger in his ear or nose or doing odd things.)  The grandmother is apparently memory challenged and the main character, Malcolm isn't really sympathetic toward any of the characters in the book.  He only cares about the ghost zapper that he has bought. 

The story about trying to zap a ghost is fine. In fact, a little bit scary, but not too scary.  I just don't like my characters to be so flat and unsympathetic.