Granny

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Review by: Daniel Hawley

                Granny is a horror book by Horowitz. The main character, Joe, is a rich kid, and his parents don’t really pay attention to him.  Joe himself isn't bratty, but just like any other normal kid. He has a horrible grandmother, who basically is a very evil woman who wants to ruin Joe’s life.

 It starts with Christmas, when he asks his grandma to get a robot. This particular one has to be assembled, but when finished it could do a lot of things such as walk, and lift stuff and a lot of other things, all controlled by a remote control. His grandma responds by giving him a wind-up robot with a key in its back for seven year old kids. He is humiliated and when he looks at his grandma, her eyes made her look as evil as a hungry alligator.

It all goes downhill from there. As he sees more of her, worse things happen. She makes him eat a whole bowl of cream cheese (a disgusting version of it too). She steals the forks and knifes. And worst of all, she blames it all on his nanny, who is his best friend.

She also killed his nanny too. Of course, she makes it look like an accident. After the possessions were stolen, they called the police to search their house. When the police got there, they had two of the most vicious search dogs. They explained that they’d starved the dogs to make them concentrate. On that note, granny ran inside. His nanny was sitting on a bench propped up against the wall. Brow dust started to fall on top of her. When she realized that it was gravy powder, she ran for her life as the dogs bit at her heels. She dove into a bush and the dogs fell on top of her. When the police finally dragged the dogs out of there, they were a lot fatter than before, their heads drooped in shame. later on, Joe saw granny shuffling to the kitchen with a suspicious bottle  And that was how evil granny is!  There is a lot of other things that went wrong too, because of granny.