# Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House

**Author:** R.L. Stine
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**Age range:** 8–12
**First published:** 1992
**Page count:** 123
**Genre:** Middle Grade Mystery
**ISBN-13:** `9780545158886`
**ISBN-10:** `0545158885`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/goosebumps-welcome-to-dead-house
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When Amanda and Josh's family inherits a house in the eerie town of Dark Falls, the new neighbors are oddly pale, the kids vanish in daylight, and the town hides a chilling secret. The first book in R.L. Stine's blockbuster Goosebumps series is a gateway grades 3-7 scary read for newly independent readers.

## Themes

- mystery
- suspense
- family
- friendship

## Content notes

- scary themes
- mild peril

## Where this book is assigned

### Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Michigan — [source: Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association) — Michigan's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 2-82-34-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Michigan — [source: Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association) — Michigan's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 2-82-34-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Michigan — [source: Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association) — Michigan's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 2-82-34-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Michigan — [source: Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association) — Michigan's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 2-82-34-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Michigan — [source: Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association) — Michigan's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 2-82-34-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)

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