Don't Feed the Vending Machine

It takes your quarters. It gives back something shinier. Something wrong.

Theo Nakamura has read the Halverstone Middle School handbook twice. All two hundred and eleven rules. He knows what to do during a fire drill, where to stand when it rains, and exactly how many pages the hall pass chart takes up. What the handbook never mentions is the dented old vending machine humming in the flooded sub-basement - the one nobody plugged in.

His best friend Bex Okafor feeds it a pencil, just to see what happens. The machine gives one back. Smoother. Shinier. Too perfect. So they try a sneaker. Then a backpack. Then the hamster from the science room. Every copy comes out a little more wrong than the last, and every copy comes out grinning.

Then the power dies for three days. Then the water starts rising in the dark. And when Bex disappears down that concrete stairwell, Theo finds the coils behind the glass are no longer holding candy bars. They're holding kids. Pale. Plastic-wrapped. Waiting. One of them presses a hand against the glass. One of them is wearing Theo's cardigan - and it is smiling like it already knows which one of them is going home.

To save his best friend, the most careful kid in school is going to have to break every single rule he has ever memorized.

Inside this creepy middle grade horror novel:

• A monster hiding in the most ordinary place in school
• Short, fast chapters with a cliffhanger every few pages
• Two best friends who are total opposites - the worrier and the rule-breaker
• A flooded boiler room, a three-day blackout, and something humming in the dark
• A final twist that will make you check your own reflection twice
• Scary fun, not gory - perfect for ages 8-12 and reading levels grade 3-6

Perfect for reluctant readers. If your kid says books are boring, hand them this one. Short chapters, big cliffhangers, and a creepy hook that makes putting it down almost impossible. Teachers, librarians, and gift-givers: this is a standalone spooky novella that hooks kids in one sitting.

CREEP STREET is a series of standalone scary stories for kids. Every book is a brand-new nightmare on the same street. No cliffhangers between books, no reading order required - just pick one up and start being scared.

Some rules nobody bothers to write down. You only learn them too late.

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