The Halloween Tree

-A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings.---Booklist

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 09/07/1999
ISBN: 9780375803017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.58h x 5.22w x 0.41d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 06/22/2012 pg. 23

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 56490 / Halloween Tree
Reading Level: 4.7 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 4