The Werewolf of Fever Swamp by R.L. Stine

At night Wolf freaks out at the howling and tries to break out of the house waking every one up, Wolf gets put out and the family finds animals ripped in half in the morning. Grady learns of the werewolf and a missing neighbor.

He meets and makes a new friend in Will who wants to explore the swamp together, when they explore the find a heron torn in half. In the morning Grady is attacked by big dog that knocks him down and keeps licking him, the dog is a stray that he wants to keep and calls him wolf, because of his size, he thinks this describes the scratching and the howls. The fever only last though the night then they feel better by morning. The siblings get a fever and start possibly hallucinating as they here scratches and howling from outside. The siblings explore and soon find out that the swamp can be dangerous, as they get lost, find a bog that will suck you in, and a hermit that chases them. Their are parents scientist looking a swamp deers in in Florida’s Fever Swamp. The Plot: Grady and Emily are siblings that have just moved to Florida and remote place called Fever Swamp. My pet peeve in twist-telling stories is that they make sense no matter how far they go and it does not. It is also a story that once you know the twist the story makes no sense, it reveals in the end that the Werewolf knows they are a werewolf and still has thoughts, which will make no sense when the thing or person is revealed to be a werewolf. The story thrives on misdirection and it doesn’t work. This book helps if you’ve read other goosebumps books and are looking for the twist to enjoy it because I thought my first guess was just too easy, but that was it. The swamp seems way more dangerous than the werewolf that slowly starts killing animals. What is scary in this book is the setting of a Florida swamp called Fever Swamp. Stine is book 14 in the Original Goosebumps series.

The Werewolf of Fever Swamp by R.L. Stine