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Hide and Shriek (Ghosts of Fear Street #1)

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Have you ever heard of a town where people play hide-and-go-seek for a dead little boy once a year? In the book Hide and Shriek by R.L. Stine a girl named Randy moves to a strange town on a street called Fear Street. Randy goes to school and sees a poster that says something about a boy's birthday. She heard many other students talking about the birthday. Her friend told her that they celebrate a boy named Pete's birthday once a year. All of the children in the town gather together and play a game of hide and seek.
Randy had to watch her little sister one night and saw a strange boy at the window and then he disappeared. Next Randy went to sleep over and asked her friends who Pete was. Her friends told her that Pete was a little boy who died and loved to play hide and seek. Her friend told her that you would play hide and seek on his birthday and in the woods at night. They told her that Pete's ghost would try to catch somebody and take over their body for a whole year. Randy thought that the strange boy was the person Pete had caught.
When the big day came almost every child in town came. Randy started to run and heard footsteps so she ran up a tree. She felt breathing on her neck and saw the strange boy. Randy ran to the cemetery and the boy followed. She saw Pete's grave and he told Randy he would take over her body. Little ghost children came and put Pete back in his grave forever. Randy and the strange boy were shocked and wondered if Pete would return again and take over someone else's body.
Will Pete play again? You have to read this book because you will be on the edge of your seat!

Randi is in trouble. In the book, Randi has just moved to Shadyside. When she comes, everyone is talking about someone named Pete. At first, Randi thinks he's the popular kid in school until she hears the stories about Pete's disapearence and how every year he takes someone's body. And how he likes new kids. Then the only advice she can give to new kids is to tell them "He's gonna get you". That is if she can survive the year where she'll eat worms?

It has been the the best book I ever read . This book was about a new girl in town. Someone in shool told her about a kid named Peter they said that each year on his birth day he would come and take over a body specialy new people . Will he get her?

Synopsis: Its Randy Clay's first day in Shadyside Middle School and she notices something strange about the place. For one thing, she sees `Saturday, June 10th' circled in the school bulletin board calendar that says "18 more days till Pete's Birthday". Even though she makes new friends in school like Sara, Megan and David, there are still a few girls like Laura and Maggie who make her feel unwelcomed, and she feels everyone staring at her, even though she cannot imagine why. She notices everyone making a big deal about Pete's birthday but she has no idea who Pete is.

Later, at Sara's sleepover, Randy finds out that Pete is really a ghost who plays hide and seek with the kids in the Fear Street woods on June 10th every year. Each year, he takes someone's body to live in for one year, and the following year, he switches to someone else's body from playing hide and seek with them, and he prefers new kids like Randy to go after. The girls tell Randy that it is just a myth and the event is treated more like a ritual now, where kids go to the woods on June 10th just for fun to play the game, and those who don't go are considered chicken by their peers. However, Randy feels that there is some truth to the story and is scared to go play the game.

Randy also starts noticing a boy named Lucas standing outside her locker, asking her for lunch because she is the `new kid'. Later in the gym, when the boys and girls have to learn how to square dance, Lucas choose Randy as his partner. Moreover, as she is walking past the cemetery to go back home, she sees Lucas crouched near one of the graves lowering a fat purple worm towards his mouth. When she is babysitting her little sister Baby, she suddenly sees Lucas staring at her from outside the window. Convinced that Lucas is Pete, Randy must now do everything she can to avoid being tagged by him during the game. Can she survive the Hide and Seek game without becoming a victim of Pete?

Review: I enjoyed reading this book, and I thought it was a good start to the "Ghosts of Fear Street" series. It had some very suspenseful moments like when Randy see Lucas staring at her from outside her own house at night, or when the game actually starts and when Randy is in the woods running for her life. I also found some parts of the story to be really funny, especially where Randy's little sister keeps pestering everyone to call her Barbara instead of Baby, but no one listens to her. And list most of the books by R.L. Stine, I enjoyed the twist in the end to find out whose body Pete was in.

However, I still did not understand why Laura and Megan hated Randy so much, as this was never really written clearly in the book. I don't even see the point of why their characters were even written into the story. But apart from that, I enjoyed reading "Hide and Shriek" and I think anyone who likes reading the Goosebumps series will enjoy this book.

This is the 1st GOFS book. In this story, Randy Clay cannot believe how much friends she has in Fear Street. When it is Halloween, ghost kids rise from their graves including Pete. Pete is a ghost that plays hide and shriek. The game is, you must not be tagged by Pete. If you won't join the game, Bad luck things will happen to you.

I've read just about every single book in the Ghosts of FearStreet series, and still none of them can top the first tale from thisFear Street knock-off. Author Emily James did a great job with her characters, twisting them all up into a great plot, all the ingredients for a masterpiece. Brilliantly represented and plot twists you were never expecting. By the time Hide and Shriek II came out, I had stopped reading the series, long believing it to be dead. I picked it up anyway, and it definitely didn't live up to what I was hopeing for from such a great first. Hide and Shriek is a must-read for anyone who likes horror. And I bet you'll think twice before playing hide-and-seek in the dark again.

I liked the book because it had good characters. I also liked it because it was scary. It was nice to read. My best character was Pete.

This book is a good I would recomended to all kinds of people that like scary books.

Randy is the new kid. She knows the children of Shadyside play a game of hide and seek. She thinks its fun. Until she finds out who's IT. It's a ghost named Pete who likes new kids. P.S. She thinks Lucas is IT. Is he? Maybe or maybe not.

Randy is invited to play at fear st.but if he is tagged he will be the spookiest and the new ghost haunting fear street,so hide Randy before you shreik.

Its a great book read and enjoy.HAPPY READING