How I Met My Monster (Goosebumps Most Wanted #3) Paperback – April 1, 2013

The little boy I read to likes Goosebumps, and so do I. Bean is a middle schooler with friends Lissa and Monroe and nemesis Harlan. His recurrent dream of a monster is causing him to be fearful in real life and is holding him back. Both Lissa and Monroe try to help him and Harlan steals his lunch. His parents try to listen but always get distracted before he can tell them what's happening. He sees hairy monsters everywhere. In the end he discovers who has been changing into a monster and accepts his fate. Goosebumps books are very popular for a very good reason.

I grew up at the peak time to be a Goosebumps fan. I can remember each edition coming, and the fan club magazines that came along with them. Goosebumps: Most Wanted brings back some of the old villains and worlds from the classic stories and brings them back to life.Anyone who is a fan of The Girl who Cried Monster will find some similarities in this creepy tale, and the Monster isn't so easy to find.I definitely recommend this to anyone who has either been a fan of Goosebumps in the past, or would like to discover a creepy and fun story teller like R.L. Stine

OK, OK, so my kid has outgrown goosebumps. But, not before he had read every single one of them and filled an entire shelf of our bookshelves with these volumes! There was a time a few years ago when he would read a book a day — ALL Goosebumps! We love the movie, we love the books, L.L Stine rocks!!

According to my son, the book is spooky (well, it's Goosebumps) and suspenseful. He recommends it for elementary school age children because he could relate to the boy who had a dream about a monster and the new kid who moved in the area and became the main character's friend. Of course, this new kid is weird and mysterious.

How I Met My Monster is set in a similiar tone as to the show How I Met Your Mother. In a way it's a book about learning how to love yourself and over coming your fears. Those lessons in themslves are good ones for anyone to learn and are easy for most people be able to relate to. The story centers on a kid named Noah Bienstock (also known as Bean) who is a shy sixth grader that often gets picked-on and who has some dominating fears as the book starts-out. One of these fears is aquaphobia, which is a fear of the water. This is very ironic because Bean's best friend, Lissa Gardener is trying out for the girls' swim team. Lissa and Bean also happen to live in an apartment complex with just one floor sperating the two homes. Their buliding's name is Stronem house.As described in the book, Bean and Lissa are very opposite of each other. Bean is depicted as looking more like a chubby, unatheltic, klutzy dork while Lissa is said to be very pretty and sporty. Bean also has more of an intorverted personality while Lissa is more of an extrovert. (For those who don't know the main difference between an extroverted and an intorveretd personality, an intorvereted person is defined as someone who usually perfers their alone time to think and recharge their engery while an extroverted person is someone who loves to be around people all the time). Also by saying that Lissa is much more sporty than he is, he furthermore mentions that she also has a lot more other friends, but that they end-up spending alot of time togather becuase they live in the same buliding and he even sometimes seems to be envious of her much better social and athletic skills. However, Lissa does prove to be a very good friend as she is very interested in helping Bean make more friends and over coming his fears.Another one of Bean's fears concerns a bully named Harlan who loves taking Bean's lunch money, calling him very mean names, putting him down, doing Bean some phyical harm like hurting his toes and picking on Bean's fears. Bean and most of his peers view Harlan as a huge pain and strongly dislike him. In dealing with his fears, Bean has been trying to over come his aquaphobia (fear of the water) by trying-out for the boys' swim team which Harlan also happens to be trying-out for. This doesn't help as later in the book, Harlan pulls a very mean and very highly embrasing prank on Bean while in the school's pool. Despite Harlan picking on him and his lack of friends, Bean also has a third fear and this becomes his number one biggest fear through most of the book. He has a very deep fear of monsters. The fear of monsters is also known as teraphobia.As the book roles on, Bean and Lissa have a new student named Monroe introduced into their class. As Bean watches Monroe, he comes to observe that Monroe is very friendly and very likeable, but that he's also somewhat strange. For example Beans makes note of how huge Monor is and how often a day Monroe addmits that he's hungry and how soon after they've eaten his hunger returns. Bean also notes how huge the amounts of meat are that Monroe devours at lunch are. Monroe despite this, is also depicted to be very genorous towards Bean and even feels empathy for him whenever Harlan picks on him. This is examplified in a part where Harlan takes Bean's lunch money which leaves Bean upset and hungry. Monroe then gives Bean part of his lunch becuase he feels sorry for him. Monroe also proves to be a good friend when Bean becomes a big target of Harlan's anger which very strongly provokes Monroe into getting into a fight with Harlan and Bean thinks he sees Monroe transform into a huge, scary-looking monster and beat Harlan up really good.The path that this book then takes in order to get to it's ending then picks up at a faster paste and it gets more and more suspenceful the closer that the reader gets to the end. In this reader's mind this book did very well in terms of dealing with different types of fear whether it be more pyschological or more social. It also did well with depicting how a very timid type of person might irrationally react in such a situation. The descriptions of the atmosphere in the book are decribed in great detail and the book's pace is very good even near the end. However, there still are some issues with the book as well. The biggest issue that some readers might have, is with Bean. During the first two halves of the book, Bean seems to be a nice and okay type of guy and he really doesn't do anything mean or nasty to make the reader hate him. It's during the third half of the book where the story gets more and more tense where he starts to become more dislikeable and somewhat annoying by being very quick to accuse others of really nasty and bad things that happen to him which will make the reader question Bean's loyalites to his friends. Other than that, the book is really good and in this reader's mind on a scale of one to ten with one being the worest and ten being the best, it's an eight which means that it's very good, but it's not great. As for a letter grade adverge, it's a B+ (an 89). Still an enjoyable read for ages nine and up.

Book came in excellent condition. Glade to add it to the collection

My grandson goes crazy for these books so I try to make an effort to buy him at least four or five every year for his birthday. Then his little brother begs him to read aloud to him ...so in the end everyone wins❤

This was an amazing book in my opinion. I suggest that you read this book if you like a bit of a scare and you like twists.SPOILER ALERT Lissa Monroe and Bean all being monsters BRILLIANT!