The Beast Must Die (Sweet Valley Twins) - Softcover

Pascal, Francine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553482041 ISBN 13: 9780553482041

Publisher: Sweet Valley, 1996

Synopsis

On a hill on the outskirts of Sweet  Valley sits a beautiful old Victorian house. It  stood empty until a few weeks ago, when a big  family moved in . . . the perfect clients for Elizabeth  and Jessica Wakefield's new baby-sitting service .  . .



When identical twins  Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield began baby-sitting for the  Riccoli family, they soon learned of the kids' bad  dreams. Overactive imaginations, they thought.  But slowly, the terrifying truth becomes  undeniable. The nightmares are real. Something evil is in  the kids' house and in their dreams. Something  that wants them dead.



Elizabeth  and Jessica try to keep the Riccoli kids from  falling asleep, but how much longer can any of them  stay awake? There's only one thing left to do: The  baby-sitters and the kids must enter the deadly  world of their dreams. And morning is a long time  away.

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the outskirts of Sweet  Valley sits a beautiful old Victorian house. It  stood empty until a few weeks ago, when a big  family moved in . . . the perfect clients for Elizabeth  and Jessica Wakefield's new baby-sitting service .  . .



When identical twins  Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield began baby-sitting for the  Riccoli family, they soon learned of the kids' bad  dreams. Overactive imaginations, they thought.  But slowly, the terrifying truth becomes  undeniable. The nightmares are real. Something evil is in  the kids' house and in their dreams. Something  that wants them dead.



Elizabeth  and Jessica try to keep the Riccoli kids from  falling asleep, but how much longer can any of them  stay awake? There's only one thing left to do: The  baby-sitters and the kids must enter the deadly

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There was something very strange about the Riccoli house, that was for sure. All Elizabeth knew was that years ago, a family called the Sullivans had lived there. No one had inhabited it since, until the Riccolis moved in a few weeks back. Mrs. Riccoli had asked the Wakefield twins and their friends to baby-sit on a fairly regular basis. Her husband hadn't been able to move to Sweet Valley yet, and Mrs. Riccoli worked evenings as a professor at Sweet Valley Unversity. She needed help, and Elizabeth had been happy to take the job at first. But now . . .Who knows if I'll ever baby-sit again? she thought forlornly, her eyes beginning to tear up from the smoke seeping through the floorboards."Shouldn't Mrs. Riccoli have a smoke alarm?" Jessica asked, turning around from the door. "Why isn't that going off? Why aren't the neighbors--""Jessica--your hands!" Elizabeth exclaimed. She rushed over to her sister. Jessica's knuckles were bleeding, the skin scraped raw. "You have to stop knocking on the door!""Well, what else am I supposed to do?" Jessica asked, her voice hoarse from shouting. "Somebody has to hear us! I don't want to die up here. And the kids are downstairs and ..." She gulped. Her lips were clenched tightly together, as if she were trying not to cry."I know," Elizabeth said, reaching out to hug her sister. "Don't worry--we'll get out of here. Somehow!" She pounded her fists against the door. "Please! Somebody! Let us out!"A young girl stands behind the closet door, hiding. She watches as a line of bright orange flames crosses the bedroom floor, almost making a circle around the young boy's bed.Slowly the flames begin to grow higher, inching toward the boy's action-figure comforter.If they were scared before ... then this is going to absolutely terrify them, the girl thinks with a wicked smile. Which is exactly the way I want it to be. The more scared they are, the sooner they'll leave my house.She grins as an orange-blue flame shoots up the edge of the comforter. Amazing, she thinks, that the little boy hasn't woken yet. But some kids will sleep through anything.Some kids...but not me.Revenge is sweet, Alice, she thinks, staring at the boy's peaceful, unknowing face. Soon his entire bed would be engulfed in flames.Which was exactly the way she wanted it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sweet Valley
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553482041
• ISBN 13: 9780553482041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144