I’m looking for a kid’s/teen book from the early 80’s. I believe it may have been a Scholastic or Dell/Yearling book, and if I remember correctly it had a yellow cover. It was about a family that puts on a haunted house at their home, and they have the customers put their hands into a hole to feel things (grapes are peeled eyeballs, spaghetti is brains, etc.). I also think they may have hung sheets up to divide the house into walking areas. There is a similar, newer book I found called Tuck’s Haunted House, but the character in that is a pig, and this was definitely a human family. For some reason I remember the name as being like ‘The Millers Haunted House’ or ‘The Wilsons Haunted House’, something with a surname in the title, but I could be wrong. I read it around the same time that I was into Choose Your Own Adventures and Encyclopedia Brown. Thanks for the help 😉
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For some reason the Happy Hollister series by Jerry West pops into my head. I seem to remember the children Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly and Sue teasing bully Joey Brill with the grapes and spaghetti, unfortunately I can’t remember which title it is.
Have you looked at Peg Kehret’s Horror at the Haunted House? (Or it could beIN the Haunted House). It’s a middle or high school putting on the haunted house, but it’s at a family’s home, and they have the peeled grapes and plastic sheeting in the story. It’s a mystery with a girl and her younger brother. The cover I remember was blue, but that was the hardcover, and the paperback may have been completely different.
Maybe “Honestly,Katie John” by Mary Calhoun?
I wonder if it’s THE HOOPLES’ HAUNTED HOUSE by Stephen Manes, 1981. The Dell/Yearling paperback has a yellow cover. If you do a Google image search on it, you should be able to find the cover I mean.
Thank you for the input everybody….Jen hit the nail on the head. It is The Hoople’s Haunted House. As soon as I saw the cover on the website I had a flashback 🙂
Thanks again for the assistance…been looking for this one for years. Glad I stumbled across loganberrybooks 🙂