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Goosebumps Series 2000 - The Mummy Walks
141 pages
A disorienting plunge from a mundane journey into a terrifying world of ancient secrets and bodily threats.
What it feels like
This middle-grade horror tale delivers a brisk, disorienting plunge into paranoia and high-stakes adventure. The reading experience is defined by a sudden, jarring shift from everyday anxiety to a surreal nightmare of stolen identity and ancient secrets. The mood is deeply eerie and threatening, keeping the reader off-balance as trusted realities are abruptly stripped away. Written in an accessible, fast-moving style typical of juvenile thrillers, the narrative relies on escalating tension and immediate, visceral threats to maintain its grip. It is perfectly calibrated for young readers who delight in wild twists, menacing authority figures, and the breathless rush of trying to escape an impossible, terrifying trap.
- Mood
- eerie
- paranoid
- adventurous
- threatening
- Tone
- suspenseful
- urgent
- menacing
- dramatic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- hidden identity · betrayal of trust · coercion · ancient secrets
- The writing
- Accessible and fast-moving, designed to hook young readers with immediate action and escalating tension.
- The arc
- Moves from the mild anxiety of independence to a disorienting shock of betrayal, culminating in high-stakes survival terror.
- Who it's for
- Middle-grade readers who crave fast-paced, mildly scary adventures with wild twists and high stakes.
Content notes
- kidnapping
- threats of bodily harm
- parental deception
- death of a parent
About the book
Michael is going to go on a flight alone for the first time. He is going to Orlando to see his aunt. When he gets in the flight he notices that no one is there. When he tucks his hands in his pockets he finds a paper saying ' We Are Not Your Parents'. He finds a man calling him in the plane Excellency. He travels through ocean and finally reaches a place called Jekeziah not Ornaldo. He see's people clapping and welcoming him. And a man named General Rameer tells that he is prince of this place. He tells that his mum was the queen and she died and those who toke care of you weren't your parents. Now he says that his mum know a hiding place that she kept a mummy and most beautiful jewel in the world. He says that his mum kept a chip in his brain that shows how to get the treasure. General Rameer asks him to led them to the treasure or he must cut the brain to find the chip
RL 4. 008-012. "An Apple paperback." "A Parachute Press book"--T.p. verso.
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