Fear Street · Book 1
The New Girl
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN-13
- 9780671707378
- Type
- novel
About this book
The New Girl is the book that started it all: published in 1989, it launched R.L. Stine's Fear Street with the first of what would become a fresh cast of doomed Shadyside teenagers caught in a slasher-plot twist ending, a formula the series would repeat for 49 volumes and over 80 million copies sold. It runs 168 pages.
Its place in Fear Street
The New Girl is book 1 in the Fear Street series. It is followed by The Surprise Party. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671707378