This is the fifth book in the "Dragonbreath" series. Danny Dragonbreath still has not learned to reliably breath fire although he can manage a tiny spurt in times of stress. It is Halloween and Danny, his friend Wendell the iguana, and a crested lizard named Christiana are taken out trick or treating by Mr. Dragonbreath. Wendell is dressed as a Hydrogen Atom, in a costume created by his mother out of pie plates. His costume is so lame all he hopes for is "pity candy." Christiana is outfitted as a Salmonella Bacteria. And Danny...is a vampire. While out collecting candy they meet up with Danny's nemesis, Eddy, a komodo dragon and a bully. Eddy and his cohorts dare the threesome to go to a dilapidated old house to trick or treat in hopes that when they run away the bullies will take their candy. Danny and his friends get locked in the house and have a variety of scary and ghostly experiences. This book is just as goofy as the previous ones in the series (somehow I missed #4). Vernon's humor is a bit off the wall but she manages to introduce topics you don't normally see in kids' books, like Occam's Razor and interviewing a ghost about its "existence postulating an afterlife" and "the constraints of the visual and physical manifestation." I like this series.
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