Kate Lipton
Debut: Goosebumps Most Wanted #10: The Lizard of Oz
The protagonist of the story. Her parents buy a lizard from Australia that bites her, leading to alarming changes in her.
- Blackmail: Adele takes a video of her crawling on the floor and uses it to coerce her into doing favors for her.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to her brother Freddy's foolish.
- Lizard Folk: Her family turns out to be this.
- Only Sane Woman: She feels this way in her family, due to her brother's goofiness and her parents' tendency to blow money on things like miniature horses, as well as her dad's pranking of her.
- Slow Transformation: Into a lizard. She develops urges to crawl on the floor and eat flies, as well as having patterns form on her skin that resemble that of a lizard's skin.
- Tomato in the Mirror: It turns out the bite from the lizard did nothing to her and her whole family are lizards, and show signs around Kate's age.
- Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Due to her dad constantly pranking her.
- With Friends Like These...: There's a girl named Adele Bender who claims to be her "friend", but really isn't.
