Started out strong but never went anywhere. I appreciated the cultural infusion but it wasn’t enough to leave me satisfied.

3.0 StarsAn interesting middle grade horror novel with a few fairly creepy moments. I struggle to effectively rate and review because I am clearly much older than the intended audience.

Read my full, illustrated review here: http://diversityhorror.blogspot.com/2...I'm so used to getting my scares from more mature media I often forget how scary "kid friendly" horror fiction can be, and get completely caught off guard. Supposedly terrifying films like Jaws, The Blair Witch Project, and Poltergeist have all failed to phase me. But Return to Oz, a PG Disney film, still gives me nightmares. And don't even get me started on the first time I saw Over the Garden Wall. The problem is, I...

Note to self: Don't start just any book at 12:30 am! Even though this is definitely a tween book, it still packs plenty of creepy inti 110 pages. I had to finish it in one go just so that I knew the ending and could go to sleep!

A contemporary young Mohawk girl, sixth-grader Molly loves to listen to her father retelling the legend of Skeleton Man, a terrifying figure who becomes so hungry that he devours his own flesh before turning on his family. But when her parents disappear, and she is given into the care of an emaciated "uncle" she has never heard of before, Molly begins to fear that the story has become a reality...The talented and prolific Joseph Bruchac, a Native American of Abenaki heritage, gives the middle-gr...

What a perfect story to tell late at night, sitting around the fire, in the middle of the woods. I love Molly and her fierce dedication to her beliefs, dreams, instincts. The way she didn't let adults back her down, and I really appreciate that Joseph Bruchac wrote a good relationship between parents and child and also gave Molly an adult ally. It's hard to find a book for kids in which the adults aren't all against the kids and, as a result, the kids are forced into being their own hero. In thi...

I've heard Joe Bruchac tell stories of his Abernaki heritage - and this reads just the way the talks. Wonderful story - even though it's aimed at a juvenile audience, no reason they should keep it all to themselves. A good story, well told, is still a good story, no matter the age group. And this is a good story well told.Also the sequel, Return of the Skeleton Man

This was a quick, creepy story based on a Native American myth, mixing dream/magic with realism so that it's difficult to decide where the boundaries are. I don't have much else to say about it, but I liked it.

I read this book as a child probably a hundred times. It scared the bejeezus out of me and I kept coming back for more. Now, over a decade later, I think about looking it up on Goodreads and it's a SERIES? Time to be that terrified child again.

Simple but effectively creepy.

If you have middle grade readers looking for a creepy story, Skeleton Man is definitely one I would recommend.

Molly wakes up to finds her parents missing and an uncle she's never met willing to be her guardian. But things don't feel right, using her dreams and wisdom given to her by her parents Molly is determined to defeat the Skeleton man and bring her parents back.Folksy and interesting, this story is steeped in Native American folklore and traditions which I enjoyed. I was also genuinely concerned for the safety of Molly, especially given the eerie nature of the Skeleton man folktale.4/5 - enjoyable...

I started reading this late last night at 11 pm. I had just picked the book up to glance at the first page, which obviously was a bad idea because then I got hooked! I read the whole thing in about 75 minutes so I was done about 12:15 am. The story was intense enough it kept me reading. This is a modern retelling of a native American legend / myth. The author is a member of a Vermont tribe, the Nulhegan Abenaki but the tale itself may be from the Mohawks as the main character is related to that

There's an old Mohawk tale about a man who was so hungry that he ate himself; limbs, torso, everything until only a skeleton remained. Relishing the taste of flesh, he also ate his family. The only relative who evaded his skeletal hands was his niece. Molly heard this tale from her father, who grew up on a reservation. She leads a typical life in the city until her parents vanish one day. She is forced to live with her great-uncle, a man she's just met, who mysteriously appears after her parents...

When Molly's parents disappear she is put into the custody of her "Uncle". She knows something is amiss when he treats her very differently from everyone else. the uncle is a very small character but at the same time one of the most important.he unintentionally gives molly clues into where her parents disappeared to. She begins to have dreams about the skeleton man, the one whom her dad told stories about. Uncle is very discreet in what he does and where he goes. Can he be the skeleton man that

So this short scary tale based of a Native American legend took about two hours to read and comes with a review by R.L. Stine promising nightmares and thrills..I admit to neither but will say Joseph Bruchac can tell a great story, one that makes you interested from beginning to end in what will happen..So Molly is happy child from two Native American parents with little to no family aside of the three of them. They live happily enough with stories and legends and even scary tales of a Skeleton M...

A very solid book for the tween audience. For an adult enthusiastic reader the book will definitely be off target when it comes to mature emotional involvement, but I am confident it is very immersive for the appropriate target audience. Honestly speaking, it is always hard to judge the book below and above our age limit, but the novel showcases some strong points. First off, the main character is spirited, independent, resourceful, and is both "book smart" and "hand smart", so basically a dream...

Molly is a 13 year old girl who wakes up one morning to find that her parents never came home. Even a few days later they still do not come home. Molly somehow knows that her parents are out there somewhere and they will come back.When social services comes, Molly tries to tell them that, but they aren't convinced and they place her with a great-uncle, who she has never met or heard of before. Molly doesn't want to go and live with him, but they give her no choice. There is something strange abo...

This book is for middle grades. It was creepy, but it was interesting.

Okay, reading this as a nineteen year old, it’s definitely not as scary as I remember, but it was pretty decent. Pre review: I recall reading this as a kid and it freaking me the fuck out, so I think it’s time to reread