Fear Street · Book 20

The New Boy

by R. L. Stine

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
167
ISBN-13
9780671853778
Type
novel

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About this book

Published in 1994, The New Boy follows Sunburn in the Fear Street sequence, another standalone trip down Shadyside's body-count road before The Dare. The book runs 167 pages.

Its place in Fear Street

The New Boy is book 20 in the Fear Street series. It follows Sunburn. It is followed by The Dare. See the full Fear Street reading order.

Shadyside is a small town with a body count -- and Fear Street, the road running through it, is where the bodies pile up. R.L. Stine's teen horror line traded Goosebumps' younger, gentler scares for real stakes: characters in Fear Street actually die, romances turn homicidal, and the killer is as often the popular girl next door as any supernatural force. Every book is a fresh cast of Shadyside teenagers -- cheerleaders, prom queens, campers, babysitters -- caught in a slasher-movie plot with a twist ending Stine…

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