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* AnAsskickingChristmas: It's about two kids who're fighting against a mutated lobster before it ultimately chases them onto a cruise ship during Christmas vacation.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Played with. When Barnabe goes after Duncan and Tricia, the two try to keep the lobster's attention so it won't go after their grandparents or anyone else in the vicinity.
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* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Brought up in the very first chapter, as Cassie and Suki spot the Custom Pets shop in a lot that was empty just a week ago, yet looks like it's been there for ages.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Comes up in the final scene -- [[spoiler: Suki Chen is known for her somersaults. At the end of the book Cassie gets a pet dog, which stands up and does a somersault, causing her to realize it's a transformed Suki.]]
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* ThanksgivingTurkey: The plot revolves around Kyle and Annie having become attached to a live turkey their parents brought home and intended to cook for Thanksgiving. Their attempt to protect him by replacing him with a fake results in the creation of the evil Frankenturkey.
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* FatteningTheVictim: The plot involves Annie accidentally wishing for her unfeeling brother Kyle to be fattened up and eaten for Thanksgiving. Annie is horrified when her parents begin to ''actually'' fatten him up, and is even more so terrified that Kyle is ''okay'' with this and eager to have his head chopped off.
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* BodyHorror: The students and teachers start developing obscene tumor-like lumps on their skin's surface after consuming the new lunch-lady's food, with an extended scene of Fitz observing an egg-sized growth on his chest and later seeing his friend Sarah walking around with another ''huge'' tumor protruding off her nape. [[spoiler:It's the sacs where the insect larva are developing inside their bodies]].
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* BodyHorror: The students and teachers start developing obscene tumor-like lumps on their skin's surface after consuming the new lunch-lady's food, with an extended scene of Fitz observing an egg-sized growth on his chest and later seeing his friend Sarah walking around with another ''huge'' tumor protruding off her nape. [[spoiler:It's the sacs where the insect larva are developing inside their bodies]].
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* FightingYourFriend: Fitz has to fight his longtime bestie, Brian, when the [[spoiler:larva inside Brian starts taking control]], giving Brian a bloody nose in order to make him snap out f it.
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* FightingYourFriend: Fitz has to fight his longtime bestie, Brian, when the [[spoiler:larva inside Brian starts taking control]], giving Brian a bloody nose in order to make him snap out f of it.
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* InSeriesNickname: The protagonist is named Fitzgerald, but everyone calls him "Fitz" for convenience's sake.
* InSeriesNickname: The protagonist is named Fitzgerald, but everyone calls him "Fitz" for convenience's sake.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Fitz manages to rid himself of the larva growing within by squeezing mustard down his throat, which makes him vomit on-page -- and writer Betsy Haynes doesn't shy away in describing the vomit's contents, namely loads and loads of larva belonging to different insects and in several colors. Luckily this helps him break out of Miss Larva's control, and later Brian and Lexi drink bottles of mustard to force force themselves into throwing up the larva as well. The story ends with the trio getting ready to make ''the whole school'' throw up]]...
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Fitz manages to rid himself of the larva growing within by squeezing mustard down his throat, which makes him vomit on-page -- and writer Betsy Haynes doesn't shy away in describing the vomit's contents, namely loads and loads of larva belonging to different insects and in several colors. Luckily this helps him break out of Miss Larva's control, and later Brian and Lexi drink bottles of mustard to force force themselves into throwing up the larva as well. The story ends with the trio getting ready to make ''the whole school'' throw up]]...
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* InSeriesNickname: Tori's full name is Victoria, used only once in the entire story.
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* InSeriesNickname: Tori's "Tori" is this for the main character -- her full name is Victoria, used only once in the entire story.
* ScaryScorpions: After receiving the Creepy Clay, Cory makes a bunch of sculptures, one of them a scorpion. Which comes to life, grows giant-sized and corners both Tasha and Cory in the kitchen.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Part of the story is set near the fictional Boneyard Woods, apparently getting its name when some hunters found a gigantic pile of bones in the woods half a century ago. [[spoiler:In the present, it's the roaming ground for the Pendred's "baby", a monstrosity made of hundreds of stitched-together roadkill]].
* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Part of the story is set near the fictional Boneyard Woods, apparently getting its name when some hunters found a gigantic pile of bones in the woods half a century ago. [[spoiler:In the present, it's the roaming ground for the Pendred's "baby", a monstrosity made of hundreds of stitched-together roadkill]].
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* GiantCrab: Barnabe the giant lobster, who used to be the mascot of a seafood restaurant before being exposed to toxic waste. It returns human-sized, and keeps growing and growing until the climax where it's large enough to take up an entire cruise ship's upper deck.
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* GiantCrab: GiantEnemyCrab: Barnabe the giant lobster, who used to be the mascot of a seafood restaurant before being exposed to toxic waste. It returns human-sized, and keeps growing and growing until the climax where it's large enough to take up an entire cruise ship's upper deck.
