Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter

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Title Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter
Paperback cover
Author R.L. Stine
Illustrator Nagata
Country United States
Language English
Series Give Yourself Goosebumps
Genre(s) Horror fiction, Children's literature
Publisher Scholastic
Released June 1996
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 135 pages
Preceded by Night In Werewolf Woods
Followed by Under the Magician's Spell

Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter is the 6th book in the spin-off series Give Yourself Goosebumps. It was released in June of 1996 on Scholastic Press. This book is different from the other books in the series because it has unique mini-games such as coin flipping and choices dependent on time of week or age of the reader.

[edit] Plot

The plot of the book is simple. You are off to spend the summer with your cousins Barney and Dora. Barney loves to bully you and Dora is the typical annoying little cousin. The house is pretty much free to roam but there is one restriction: you cannot go into the basement. When you ask why, your aunt tells you that they just moved in, and the previous owners were very strange. Being a kid, you go on down. In the basement there is a refrigerator that holds a jar of a purple substance (that smells like peanut butter) and a box of some chocolate cake. The purple peanut butter that can shrink you down to nothing and the cake can make you grow so tall you grow bigger than the earth. The reader chooses which one to pick. Then the reader makes choices to find the outcome.