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hours and hours.”
    I started toward the kitchen doorway, and Mom burst through it in her bathrobe. “Max!” she cried. “You're up early!”
    “Yeah. Well—” I started.
    “And you're already dressed. Great!” Mom exclaimed. “Here. Take these eggs. Get some milk. You can help me make breakfast.”
    She smiled at me. “Big day in school today? Is that why you're up so early?”
    For the first time in my life, I didn't have an answer.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Robert Lawrence Stine's scary stories have made him one of the bestselling children's authors in history. “Kids like to be scared!” he says, and he has proved it by selling more than 300 million books. R.L. teamed up with Parachute Press to create Fear Street, the first and number one bestselling young adult horror series. He then went on to launch Goosebumps, the creepy bestselling series that gave kids chills all over the world and made him the number one children's author of all time
(The Guinness Book of Records)
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    R.L. Stine lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jane, their son, Matthew, and their dog, Nadine. He says he has never seen a ghost—but he's still looking!

Published by Delacorte Press an imprint of Random House Children's Books a division of Random House, Inc. New York
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2006 by Parachute Publishing, L.L.C.
    All rights reserved.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Stine, R.L.
    Don't close your eyes / R.L. Stine.—1sted. p. cm. — (Mostly ghostly) “A Parachute Press Book.”
    Summary: Max already shares his house with two young ghosts that only he can see, but things get really bad when an evil ghost decides to share his body.
    eISBN: 978-0-307-49489-4
    [1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Horror stories.] I. Title. II. Series: Stine, R.L. Mostly ghostly.
    PZ7.S86037Dj 2006
    [Fic] —dc22
    2005014782
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