Hit and Run (Point Horror Series) [Hardcover]

R. L. Stine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2004

R.L. Stine's teen horror classic . . . in a striking new package

They left him for dead. But what if he's not? What if he's now out to get them?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic, Inc (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590453858
• ISBN-13: 978-0590453851
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,116,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Creepy and Funny at the Same Time, January 25, 2007

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C. Schaeffer (Brookline, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hit and Run (Point Horror Series) (Hardcover)

Eddie, Winks, Cassie, and Scott were bored so they decided to go for a drive even though they don't have licences, just to make sure they would pass their drivers test. When Eddie was at the wheel he hit someone named Brandit Tinkers and killed him. Now they're getting messages and phone calls from him.
Great book!! It's really scary and funny at the same time. You'll be really suprised at the end. It was the first R.L. Stine book i read that isn't Goosebumps
I rate this book 4 stars because it was a little draged on.
-- Scottie S. age 10

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "'License To Drive, License to Kill'", May 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hit and Run (Point Horror Series) (Hardcover)

This book was great! The begining was boring, but it gets thrilling very quickly. It is about these friends who go for a drive one night and hit a guy. They leave him there in the road cuz he is dead and they don't wanna go 2 jail. But they only think he is dead. Soon the girl gets a call from the guy theu hit. He says: "You can't run" and hangs up. It sent chills down my spine! This book is really good and thrilling!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Look before you cross....", September 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Hit and Run (Point Horror Series) (Hardcover)

Four high schoolers from Avondale North (Cassie Martin, the protagonist, Scott Baldwin, Eddie "Scaredy" Katz, and Bruce "Winks" Winkleman) secretly go out one evening to practice their driving on a nearby deserted road. However, on the way back home, they accidentally hit and kill a man crossing the street. The foursome try and keep it a secret, but too many odd things start to happen shortly after: the corpse of the man they killed is reported missing from the morgue, the four young teens start receiving threatening phone calls from the deceased man (Brandt Tinkers), as well as other signs to indicate the man isn't dead after all--or is he? Could this whole stunt really just be a sick joke?

"Hit and Run" loosely follows the path of Lois Duncan's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", except there's not as much bloodshed in this book as compared to the movie (which is surprising, since this is a Stine book), except for another hit-and-run targeting Winks. As is typical with any R. L. Stine book, the writing's spare and short, and there's a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter. The identity of the killer is pretty easy to guess as well (at least it was for me), and I'm sure most readers familiar with Stine's work will guess him/her nearly from the beginning. There is some morbid, juvenile humor (i.e., at the beginning with the human eye prank and at the end when they're playing around with a stiff), but I think the intended audience will probably enjoy it rather than be disgusted.