The "young readers" series isn't quite as well written as the middle grade, unfortunately. I think even if the reader were an early reader the book would seem too tame and odd. There weren't any ghosts in the haunted house, but there was a weird, oddly placed woman in white who floated on a sunbeam like apparition to the sky. Think more like an angel that anything spooky. I just feel this would be a little disappointing even to a smaller child. ( )

Too young, infantile, and leaps-and-boundish for me. ( )

Picked this up at a garage sale a few years ago, not realizing that it isn't part of the main Choose Your Own Adventure series that I loved as a kid. It's for younger readers. I'm not particularly impressed with this one, but it could be just great for the targeted age group. My problem with it? The story jumps around too much. None of the choices really matter story-wise, because the next page in that sequence almost always goes off in another direction. Consequently, there's little coherence to the book. ( )