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The New Girl (Fear Street #1)

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FEAR STREET -- WHERE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES LIVE...

The new girl is as pale as a ghost, blond, and eerily beautiful -- and she seems to need him as much as he wants her. Cory Brooks hungers for Anna Corwin's kisses, drowns in her light blue eyes. He can't get her out of his mind. He has been loosing sleep, ditching his friends...and everyone has noticed.

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Mass Market Paperback, 168 pages

Published August 1st 1989 by Simon Pulse

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Jan 05, 2008 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone who like to read scary books

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Oct 29, 2010 Dakota newland rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

For what i read of the the book.. I loved it! It gave me a great picture in my head of what was going on and it was a great book for my personal interests in ghosts. Yes, i would recommend it because it is a book that if you sat down and read it you wouldn't be able to put it down, if you really got into it. I would definitely recommend this to people who are int rested in ghosts or suspenseful books. Yes i would've liked to keep reading to finish it bur i just couldn't read and stay focused on...more

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Apr 19, 2009 Annie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: junior-year-2008-09

This book was about a boy named Cory, who lives in Shadyside and goes to Shadyside High. He sees a pretty girl, who's as pale as a ghost, named Anna. He is soon attracted to her and wants her. As soon as he meets her, Anna disappears. The only thing Cory knows about Anna is that she lives on Fear Street, a street that's spooky and a little haunted. After her disapperance, Cory channges because he could not stop thinking about her, losing a lot of sleep, and leaving his friends to look for her. H...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Abby Vitera added it

I think The New Girl by R.L Stine is an amazing book. It has such a suprising ending that you would of never guessed.
In R.L Stine's The New girl, a new student named Anna catches Cory offguard and thing's go strange. Cory can't stop thinking about Anna and he look's for her everywhere he goes. He can't get her long blonde hair, crystal like eyes, and soft pale skin out of his mind. Cory finally start's talking to Anna and then he find's out more than he wanted. Anna's brother keep's saying "An...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Donna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: best-bitten, cheese

The book turned out to be not nearly as sinister as the blurb intones but it had its creeptastic moments all the same. Stine knows how to build suspense and keep the reader hanging as the plot moves along. Really, it's no wonder he's been putting out books for so long. He doesn't have an underlying evil about his writing like Stephen King does but it's spooky. It does the trick if you happen to be young and reading it in the dark. It gets under your skin just enough that you turn the light on an...more The book turned out to be not nearly as sinister as the blurb intones but it had its creeptastic moments all the same. Stine knows how to build suspense and keep the reader hanging as the plot moves along. Really, it's no wonder he's been putting out books for so long. He doesn't have an underlying evil about his writing like Stephen King does but it's spooky. It does the trick if you happen to be young and reading it in the dark. It gets under your skin just enough that you turn the light on an extra notch and settle back in to read.

THE NEW GIRL is the first book in the Fear Street series and I'd say (while I've read them way out of order) this would be a pretty good start. If I happened to be a young teen wandering a book store in the late 80s and picked it up, I'd totally get hooked on the series (because I haven't done it now, obviously, O_o). It's sort of your typical ghost story with the spooky street and the creepy houses and the scary stories that all of the locals grew up with. It's a great beginning and scene-setter to get it all rolling. There's a curse around Fear Street, and here's why.

Now, I wouldn't peg Cory as dumb but he was definitely oblivious to the point of me wanting to smack him upside the head. Whether he just developed some serious tunnel vision or really only had a one track mind, if Cory saw one way, there just wasn't any other way to see it. And I felt for Lisa because she was trying to break through that egg shell head of his and it just wasn't working for 99% of the book. Only after the revelation at the end did Cory finally come around and see a light outside of his own closet.

The ending was a bit disappointing for me because it kind of watered down the rest of the story but it was decent enough. It could have been a hell of a lot worse but there are other avenues that Stine could have taken the plot that would have made is much creepier. But that's pretty classic Stine: a lot of build-up with a nominally happy ending and a pretty rational explanation for everything. Well, as rational as a horror book can get. You come to expect it reading his work.

THE NEW GIRL is a great addition to any cheese lover's library, especially if you can snag a first printing paperback like I have. :) If nothing else it'll make you nostalgic for a time when you didn't have much else to worry about so you could curl up under the blankets with a flashlight and read horror to your heart's content.(less)

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Apr 21, 2013 Directioner rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1st-in-series, ghosts, paranormal, male-leads

With the prologue, I already knew that (view spoiler) It was just a suspicion that I held onto for the rest of the book. I'm surprised that she wasn't mentioned until close to the end, but still held on to my suspicion.

Anyway... It was weird how Cody was so obsessed with Anna. Even when he was told that she was (view spoiler) the boy didn't stay away. Goo

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May 16, 2012 Jory rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

FEAR STREET! Ah, the books that shaped me in middle school. I loved the Goosebumps books when I was elementary school so much that I had to segue into the Fear Street books. I can't believe this book was written in the 80s. 1989, to be exact. This book came out the year I was born. IT'S 22 YEARS OLD. Insanity. And it still holds up today.

Fear Street is a series by Stine that centers around a street in the town of Shadyside called Fear Street. The street is known for unexplained mysteries, murde...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Eddie Huang rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

R.L Stine is one of my favorite horror authors. I've read Blind Date and it was a similar kind of story where a boy meets a girl who seems to be abnormal in some way. This book is about Cory meeting a girl named Anna but whenever he asks around to find her again, people say that she's dead. Because Anna was so gorgeous and irresistible, he could not accept the fact that he was speaking to a ghost, so he decides to observe around. Conflict between Cory's decision to accept the fact that shes dead...more

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Jul 26, 2009 andrea rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-way-back-when, fiction, ya, read-in-2009

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Oct 24, 2012 Rachael P. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The New Girl
R.L. Stine
Realistic Fiction/Horror
176 pages
9/2/12

The New Girl is a book about a boy named Cory and he is just like any regular kid in high school. He is on the gymnastics team and is friends with the most popular girl in the school. One day Cory was eating lunch when he sees the most beautiful girl run across the cafeteria and into the locker bay. He can't get her out of his mind, he has to see her again. He ask everyone if they have seen her, some people say yes and other people ay...more

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Oct 04, 2012 Kenzie W rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is The New Girl, it was writen by R.L Stine it is fiction and there are 168 pages i started this book the date of 9/27/12 and finished on the date of 10/3/12. This book is about this boy named Cory and he falls in love with a girl named "anna" but what Cory doesnt know is that "anna" is not who she says she is. In this book you will feel like you are in this book and you will follow Cory and his friends on his adventure to find out who "anna" really is and about her family. I gave this...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Deo rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This is the first book in the long running Fear Street series. It starts with a chapter about how easy it was to kill a person...how this person was always the most popular and all that... but not anymore. It is about a teenager named Corey Brooks. He is on the gymnastics team and one day while doing some tricks in the cafeteria he sees the new girl... her pale skin and blond hair. He falls in love. He asks his friend Lisa Blume ( Lisa and Corey have lived across the street from each other for a...more This is the first book in the long running Fear Street series. It starts with a chapter about how easy it was to kill a person...how this person was always the most popular and all that... but not anymore. It is about a teenager named Corey Brooks. He is on the gymnastics team and one day while doing some tricks in the cafeteria he sees the new girl... her pale skin and blond hair. He falls in love. He asks his friend Lisa Blume ( Lisa and Corey have lived across the street from each other for a long time and have been friends through it all) if she knows the new girl. They are in a class together and Cory finds out her name is Anna Corwin. Lisa is not impressed with his questions because she secretly likes him but he never seems to notice. Corey thinks about Anna so much that he messes up in gymnastics a bunch of times. One time during a meet he sees her in the audience and totally wipes out. He gets a hold of her phone number and when he calls a man answers and says that Anna is dead and to stop calling. Corey goes to her house on Fear Street and runs into a neighbor who is out at night walking his dog. He runs into this neighbor a few more times throughout the book and the dog actually knocks him over once. One time he knocks on Anna's door and a man answers ( later it is found out that this man is Anna's brother Brad ) the man tells Corey that Anna is dead and to never come back. Corey tries to ask Anna about all of this but she kisses him and distracts him. Later Lisa brings Corey to the library and they see an article of Anna Corwin falling down a flight of stairs and dieing. Cory gets a call from Anna one night telling him to come to get her he does and when he asks her again she gets all nervous and starts kissing him again, then she jumps out of the car. One day Lisa asks Corey to the dance and Anna overhears. Shortly after Lisa finds a dead cat in her locker. Cory brushes it off as some sort of prank. At the dance Lisa and Corey get into a fight kind of and Lisa leaves. Soon you hear a scream and Lisa has been pushed down some stairs. They search the school and find out it was Brad... he flees and now Corey knows the guy is dangerous. He confronts Anna again and she explains that Brad had a girlfriend who died then he started calling Anna's sister Willa by that girls name and saying that Willa was dead. Then one day Willa died... Anna and her mom thought that Brad pushed her down the steps and became afraid of him. And now he says that Anna is dead and she is afraid he is going to do the deed. Suddenly Brad shows up outside peering in through the cafe window, Anna panics and leaves. Corey makes his way to her house and him and Brad have a fight, he manages to knock Brad out and Anna starts taking him upstairs. She says they should kill Brad with a letter opener she grabs of a hallway table. He refuses and she attacks him. Brad comes and they finally get her down. He explains that Anna is actually Willa. Willa was always jealous of Anna and Brad and his mom suspected that Willa killed Anna. Brad says once he knew that Willa was calling herself Anna and Corey was getting close and Brad did not want Corey to get hurt. he says that at the dance he thought the girl running was Willa and he just meant to grab her. After she fell he seen it was not her and he panicked. So it is a twisted story really and at then end Lisa agrees to pick a girl for Corey.... we all know who she has in mind. A good read, well written for sure, and a great start to the series.(less)

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Aug 17, 2012 Patricia (Patricia's Particularity) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, fear-street

R.L. Stine's first Fear Street sets the bar pretty high for not only all Fear Street books but for all other thriller books to follow it. Ann is the new girl girl at Cory's school. She is unlike any other girl Cory has ever seen. From the moment that Cory sees Anna, he becomes obsessed, unable to think about anything but her. When Anna starts to show interest in Cory, Cory cannot believe it... little does he know he is putting himself and his loved ones in danger... Is Anna real? Is she a ghost...more

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Jun 02, 2008 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this book is about Cory falling in love with the new girl. the new girl name is Anna. Cory thinks that the is the most prettiest girl ever. Cory didn't know how to ask her out, so he call her home. by the way Anna lives in fear street. fear street is very creepy at night. Some people consider it as a haunted street. anyways, Cory calls Anna, but this strange man answer and said Anna has died and does not exist anymore. cory didn't know, what was he saying. so, lisa his best friend says that her...more

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Oct 20, 2011 Julia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thought this was an average piece of work for R.L. Stine. I disliked how it didn't grab my attention at the beggining, but I finally managed to get into it about half way through. I liked how I didn't have any clues to how the book would end. It took me a little longer than usual to finish this book because I wasn't obligated to read. I was surprised I had actually finished it. This would lead up to the reason of why I gave it two stars.

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Jan 01, 2013 Arthur rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Cory Brooks learns of a girl with interests in him lives on haunted Fear Street but pursues her anyway. Early writing and it seemed to me half way through the book I saw R L Stine's regular style flowing strengthen, the first of the book was slow to start, but what's remarkable is and was a minimalist's POV, as R L Stine quickens the pace while still writing really great, in some passages extremely leniently striking.

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Mar 10, 2012 Autumn rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

i thought this book was ok but i did not like how long it took me to read this book. The book was unlike other R.L Stine books this one did not grab my attention adn got to be boaring did not keep me on my toes like some of the other R.L Stine books. There was only like one part in this book that keep me wanting to read once that part was over it was back to being boaring and kinda uninteresting.

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Jul 15, 2010 Jan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, paranormal

Cory can't stop thinking about Anna the mysterious new girl at school. His obsession is ruining his grades and his gynastics not to mention his relationships with his friends. And now everyone is telling him that Anna is dead.

Maybe I am just a sucker for high school books, but I enjoyed this story. It gave me just a little chill and I really enjoy that. It is completely appropriate for tweens and teens. A quick, fun read.

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Jul 25, 2012 Natasha Curulli rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first r.l. Stine book - one I read in primary school and have recently re read. It is my intention to collect every single rl stine book for my library. Simply this book was not my favorite story but it was still intriguing. I love how incentive and mysterious r l stine books are and this one certainly has a nice surprise at the end.

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Feb 13, 2013 Kellkellkellyyahoo.com rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-lit

I used to really like Goosebumps when I was young so I thought I'd pick some R.L. Stine to check out for my YA lit class. It was very predictable and the dialogue was very old fashioned and was like they were ten instead of 16 (think phrases along the lines of "gee wiz"). But surprisingly his book was published rather recently (popular current music artists are mentioned). But the end was satisfying and the plot did keep me reading (read it in one sitting). But I'd definitely recommend this for...more

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Feb 20, 2011 Allyson (Belle) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, fear-street

I haven't read these books since like 5th grade, and I am proud to say that after years of searching, I now own every one of these with their original cover art. So starting with this one, I'm gonna read them all again. This one is still one of my favorites. I remembered the twist at the end, but I completely forgot about all the stuff with Lisa! I highly recommend this book and this whole series to anyone who loves horror and mysterys.

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Sep 27, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm trying to rate it for what it was...a book for much younger readers...so in that case I think it was ok...but I remember reading it as a young girl and loving this series so I'm basing it on that mostly. Some things were a little awkward, since I remember reading it before there were ipods etc and the author added those to this new addition, but without many other easy to make modern re-touches...I mean, no teenager who uses ipods would dial 411...they'd just google it, and most wouldn't use...more

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Oct 18, 2010 Unique10 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I thought this book was a really good one. In the begining it was not as exiting. When I started getting closer to the end of the book I was shocked by everything that started going on. The ending deffinetly had a big twist. With the ending being what it was made me love the book. I would reccomend the book to anyone.

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Feb 03, 2010 Janice rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: horror-lovers

Recommended to Janice by: Andrea Howey

Creepy and exciting... it took me only a little time to read this book and I just can't put it down. It is about a guy named Cory from Shadyside High and saw a new girl. He thought she was just beautiful. She is hiding a mysterious secret and bounds to find out. He needs to find out or die trying.
Please read! ~

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Jan 19, 2010 Alexis Jade rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fear-street

I read this in fifth grade. My only problem with it is how during the whole story, I thought she was really a ghost. When you found out what she really is, it's a bit of a let down. That's why I took off one star for it. But other then that, it was great. Not one of his best, but not a bad one either. I liked it.

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Feb 11, 2009 Alejandra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

i reallly liked this book especially because it scared me. i was a little younger so if you read i tand dont get scared, im sorry. I liked how it had a lot of suspense and a lot of "what!! thats impossible!!" type reactions while i was reading it. i found it sor of weird in the beginning.

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Jun 09, 2012 Sandy Wang rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 26, 2011 Jared Deocareza rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is the first book of the Fear Street Series, so I expected for it to be a really good one, but to much of my disappointment it didn't turned out to be a good one. But still some parts are good, that's why i'm giving this one a 2 stars out of 5 stars- which is 'it was okay'.

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Feb 08, 2009 Layla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 7th-grade-ir-books-cricket

This book is about a new girl that arives at shayside. cory only seen her once, then she dissapeared. ever since he seen her he's been obsesed with her! he has been ditching his friends,and ditching class just to find her! this new girl wants him just as much as he wants her but cory has to know that finding out her secret may mean his death!
i could connect this book to "the boy next door" because the two girls that are in love with him are trying way to hard to get his attention and make him fa...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Sam rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first book, "The New Girl", of the Fear Street series by R.L. Stine was overall pretty disappointing. From the beginning I wasn't too into it, and it never really picked up. I still branded it a three-star work up until the last quarter, where it actually got worse. Cory Brooks is a student at Shadyside High, and falls hopelessly in love with the new girl, Anna. Cory spends his days thinking about Anna obsessively, and they share a few romantic encounters. However, Anna's brother claims she...more

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