Shadyside in the beginning

23. The New Girl – R.L. Stine

This is where it all started with Fear Street. The blood on sweatshirt cuffs, the wild deaths, the “crazy” students, and the hungry kisses. Cory the elite high school gymnast meets Anna, gets fixated on Anna, then goes to her house on Fear Street and is told she is dead by Brad, who Anna says is her crazy brother. Mmhmm. Cory next meets Lisa – who is clearly not dead or very mysterious – and bad things start to happen. A dead cat in the car with a warning note attached is pretty extreme. The warning note alone would have been unnerving enough, I think. Anyway, there’s a twist besides “this whole Anna thing is really bad news,” and a series is born.

In my herd, the new girl is Hen Wen. She’s been around for a year, she has Salem, she’s pretty well adjusted into the herd, but then again she didn’t have anyone warning her off. Also, she’s a more 70s pig, no 1989 nonsense for her.

 

Hen Wen can judge all teenagers and decades from her 70s chair. She knows things, she has a hanging plant.