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The Runaway (Fear Street Series #41)

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Felicia is a runaway who runs away all the way to Shadyside. And she ends up on Fear Street. Even though she knows no one in Shadyside, she has to find a job and a place to live. But everything is in her favor in that department. She also quickly finds friends. She quickly gets a life and people to hang out with. How cool.

But it appears that someone wants to kill her. Are these people really her friends? She receives a threatening note; the place where she is staying is ramshackled. Should she leave Shadyside? But if so, where will she go? Will she be safe and will there be a happy ending?

I discovered R.L. Stine Fear Street books when my oldest child was in 5th or 6th grade (I don't remember which). She had to read books for the school's reading program. The student with the highest amount of points each six weeks was the winner. (It was usually her.) Her school had lots of Fear Street books on the reading program; that's how she discovered them. She loved reading them so much, I just had to read one and see what all the hype was about. After I read the first one, I've been hooked every since. They are good books, fun books, and have a fun atmosphere. Even though some are better than others, most all of them are 5-star books. A few of the better ones are "The Babysitter" (4 books in the series - I through IV), "Hit and Run", "The Rich Girl", "Halloween Party", "The Secret Bedroom", "Cat", and many, many more.

I am an adult. Adults are allowed to read fun books, too.

If I could I'd give this book a 11! Now I have said before that other books were the best, but this one was really the best. I started reading it the night I got it and I told myself I was going to bed after chapter 5, but after that chapter I was hooked, I just couldn't put it down. After every chapter I told myself I was going to bed, but I would always tell myself, "just one more chapter", until the whole book was read . That was the fastest time I've ever read a book. It only took me 2 hours, then I finally went to bed! You must read this book, cause it really is the best!!

Have you ever heard of a girl with telekinetic powers? Well in the book Runaway a girl named Felicia has powers to move things with her mind. One problem, she couldn't control her powers. So she became a runaway. After he escaped all the tests people were doing on her she went to a town called Shadyside. There she met a boy called Nick and his girlfriend Zan, short for Alexandria. Felicia became runaway because at her old town she killed two people. Zan found out about her secret and tried to kill her. Next her friend Debbie tried to kill her. Do you think she think survived?
While I was reading the book, I was on the edge of my seat. Everyday I read two to four chapters. When I was reading the book I pictured I was in the book watching everything. Everyday when I was in school I couldn't wait until my study hall so I could read the book. One weekend I stayed up from 9:00pm to 1:00am finishing the book. I absolutely could not put the book down. The book had so much action and excitement. That is what I look for in a book.
Felicia, the protagonist, is tall, slender, brown eyes, and long brown hair. Her personality traits are nice, caring, helpful, concerned, generous and courageous. She showed she was helpful by helping out at the Burger Basket. She showed she was courageous when the Burger Basket started on fire and people were still trapped inside the building. She went inside and cleared the fire with her telekinetic powers. She has a couple of strengths and weaknesses. Her strengths are that she has telekinetic powers. Her weaknesses are that she cannot control them. They just go off when ever they feel like it. An example is when she was in school, she felt the powers swell inside of her, then they just burst out and a row of lockers began to tremble and books began to slam against the lockers.
Felicia seems like a nice girl. She seems she would help out no matter what the situation. She acted strange a few times but people got used to it, except for Zan. It seems like she had a lot of adventures. This was a good book, I hope you read it.

The Runaway is a decent book but its very formulaic like all of the other Fear Street books. They all have a young female have a crush on a guy, they don't have much of a personality. Also the book shares a few similarities with "Carrie" which supports my statement of R.L. Stein being "The Poor Man's Stephen King" (Or at least when he writes "Adult" Books) Its not really a bad book but its far from great.

R.L. Stine really did a great job on this one! He showed the readers a charecter that was gifted with super-natural powers and telekinesis. I really liked her and could find myself identifying with her. Felicia is a great character and I hope to see her in some other Stine books.

THIS WAS AN AWESOME BOOK! IT ONLY TOOK AN HOUR TO FINISH! IT IS VERY SUSPENSEFUL.

i love it!r.l stine did a great job on this but isnt for childeren uder at least 13 because how the gresome detail about "oh kristy!"felicia cried.one of the support beams had cut off kristys arm.felicia could see the white bone and the ragged layers of muscle."bricks had cruched anys face his nose and lips and eyelids scraped raw" so i warn u this is not for young childeren if you are in to gruesomw stuff like me you should reaf this but i just wanna warn you the details are pretty gruesome if you love r.l. stine read this during the day cause at night when kristy and andy are found you may see visions of them beware!

This book is good-weird. There is powers and a lot of confession. Over-all it was very good.~ Ann

Reading R.L. Stine's Runnaway revealed a book geared toward a very mature audience. I don't think the grotesque details such as, "Kristies cradled her severed arm against her chest. Andy's face looked like raw hamburger." are necessary. These details are horrid, scarry and may offend a young audience. I believe parental discression should be advised and I don't reccommend this book to childdren under 12.

I read this book and I think it's really great. I read it in 2 hours , but I thought I would take days to read it.My favorite part was when Felicia lifted Zan into the air by using her mind. That would be so cool if it was for real. I think it's sad that Zan and Debbie were so messed up. I think it's disgusting that Debbie and Zan both killed the boys they loved. I feel sorry for Andy and Doug. If Debbie wanted to go steady with Andy she could have just said so. And Zan did not have to kill Doug just because Doug was going behind her back with another girl.