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  “I can’t. I dropped it!” you shout.

  Then, as suddenly as the elevator started, it stops.

  The doors slide open. Light pours in.

  Turn to PAGE 20.

  BEWARE!!

  DO NOT READ THIS

  BOOK FROM

  BEGINNING TO END!

  Me Tarzan. You Doomed …

  You’re on vacation in South America. All ready for some real jungle action: tigers, quicksand, swinging on vines!

  Then you eat some enchanted fruit and start changing into a hideous scaly monster! Now tigers are the least of your worries …

  You’ve got to find a way to get back to normal. And fast. Before your friends leave you behind in the jungle of doom!

  But first, you’ll have to escape a lake full of vicious piranhas. Or find your way out of an underground cavern. Or take your chances with a tribe of headhunters!

  You’re in control of this scary adventure. You decide what will happen. And how terrifying the scares will be.

  Start on PAGE 1. Then follow the instructions at the bottom of each page. You make the choices.

  Make the right choices and live to tell the tale. Make the wrong choice … and BEWARE!

  SO TAKE A LONG, DEEP BREATH, CROSS YOUR FINGERS, AND TURN TO PAGE 1 TO GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!

  “All right, Junior Explorers, I direct your attention to this magnificent specimen of Bromeliad aechmea …”

  On and on the guide, Mrs. Wheedle, drones. You can’t believe you’re stuck on a nature study tour!

  When you saw the brochure for the Junior Explorer Adventure Club at the front desk of your hotel, it looked great. Three days hiking in the jungle with ten other kids your age and an “experienced jungle guide.” How cool!

  “Come on,” you begged your parents. “We’re in South America and you want me to sit by the pool all day? I could do that at home. Why did you take me to a foreign country if you didn’t want to expose me to new things?”

  Now you wish your parents had said NO! At least your best friend, Zoe, is with you on the hike. And, even though the guide is as boring as possible, the jungle is pretty cool. Heavy vines hang crisscrossed over the trail. Strange and beautiful flowers in deep colors sprout from every side.

  As you follow behind Zoe, you notice a strange spiky flower with bright blue petals off to the side of the trail. Absentmindedly, you reach out to touch it.

  A sudden breeze makes the bright blue petals shiver.

  “NOOOOOOOOO!” the flower screams.

  You pull your hand back at the last second!

  Race to PAGE 2.

  “NOOOOOOOOO!” the scream continues. “Don’t touch that flower!”

  It’s only Mrs. Wheedle.

  “What’s wrong?” you ask. “Is it poisonous? Does it shoot venom or something cool?”

  “Of course not!” Mrs. Wheedle huffs. “That flower is an endangered species. You could have killed it!”

  She turns and marches back to the front of the group.

  “Whew! That was a close one!” Zoe says, brushing the bangs away from her eyes. “For a second there, I thought something exciting was actually going to happen!”

  Zoe’s cool. Way cool. That’s one of the reasons she’s your best friend. She has a sarcastic remark for every situation. And she’s not scared of anything.

  That’s why you know she’s just as anxious as you are to break away from the group and do some real exploring.

  Just a moment ago, through the trees, you saw something else that was definitely worth checking out.

  There it is again. Off to the right. About twenty yards away. Incredible! Your heart skips a beat at what you see.

  Find out what it is on PAGE 37!

  R.L. Stine’s books are read all over the world. So far, his books have sold more than 300 million copies, making him one of the most popular children’s authors in history. Besides Goosebumps, R.L. Stine has written the teen series Fear Street and the funny series Rotten School, as well as the Mostly Ghostly series, The Nightmare Room series, and the two-book thriller Dangerous Girls. R.L. Stine lives in New York with his wife, Jane, and Minnie, his King Charles spaniel. You can learn more about him at www.RLStine.com.

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  Copyright © 1997 by Scholastic Inc.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  First edition, February 1997

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