The Haunted Auditorium by R.L. Stine. Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi. Pages read: 119 ( 45 mins)

The words I chose are emphasis, brief, prefer and props. Emphasis is special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress. Brief means short in time, duration, length, or extent. Prefer means to choose or be in the habit of choosing as more desirable or as having more value. Props are a theatrical property.

This is about Jenny and Michael. They made the main parts in a school play that hasn't been done for over 70 years. Everyone claims it's haunted because a kid died in it. Then a new kid comes to school named Brian. They think that the ghost was ruining the play writing Stay Away From My Home Sweet Home on the props. Then they find out a hobo was living under the stage. He ran away and they did the play. Then Brian turned out to be the kid from over 70 years ago who died in the play. He came back and played the main part as a ghost after knocking out Michael. Then he explained that he died by falling through the trapdoor. When Jenny was about to take off his mask, he backed away and fell into the trapdoor again. Everyone thought that it was part of the play, and when Jenny and Michael went to look for the body, it was gone.

I think that this is another book with a strange ending. It was very unexpected. I think that Brian has finally found peace. He just had to die again after finishing the play. Very weird.