The New Girl (Fear Street, #1)

by R.L. Stine

“I don’t think Arnie’s ever had an idea,” Mrs. MacReedy said, still straight-faced.

Love her already

“It’s not a girl’s shirt. It’s from the Gap. It’s for girls or boys. You know. It’s just a shirt.” She pulled the black-and-white-striped T-shirt out and tossed it up to him.

Pretty progressive for the time

Let me talk. It’s for me! I know it’s for me!

Girl killed her sister and is pretending to be her?

There are other girls in the world, you know.”

Hint hint

“You’re screwing up your gymnastics rating because of a girl you don’t know that you haven’t seen? Well, that makes sense to me.”

Preach

“I’ll give you ten bucks to look at my file. Better than that, I’ll pay you back the ten bucks I owe you!”

Ha

The voice on the other end was a hoarse whisper, so quiet he could barely make out the words.

Male or female?

It was hard to tell from whispers, hard to tell if it was a man or a woman.

Bingo - I'm guessing it's "Anna" (or a friend playing a joke on him)

He was still wide awake, but it startled him, making him jump straight out of bed. He picked up the receiver at the beginning of the second ring.

I'm assuming that this is a landline, so what if one of his parents had answered?

She turned around and looked at him. “Hurry downstairs before your breakfast gets cold.” “What’s for breakfast?” “Cornflakes.”

“Well, you’re not going to believe this. She said that Anna had been in her class—but that Anna was dead.”

It has to be a sibling pretending to be her

Lisa was certainly acting weird, as if she had a crush on him or something.

Yeah duh

A dead cat flopped out of her locker and dropped onto her white sneakers. The locker was splattered with blood. The cat’s stomach had been slit open.

Yeah bitch is crazy

We had a sister. Her name was Willa. Willa was a year older than me. She looked like me, but she was really beautiful. She was the true beauty of the family.

So I'm guessing that she's actually Willa

“Here’s the Cokes. Pay now, please,” the waitress interrupted.

?

“I just wanted to keep you safe from her,” Brad said.

Yeah exactly