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The Wrong Number (Fear Street, No. 5)

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To Deena and her best friend, Jade, making sexy and innocent phone calls to the boys from school was their idea of fun. But Deena's half brother, Chuck, decides to take the game one step further: making dangerous threats to those who answer their phones. That's when he calls the wrong number on Fear Street, a number where the gruesome murder took place. Now, the person knows who they are and where they live, but could all three of them call for help? There's nowhere to go when murder is on the line.

With great suspense and wonderfully written, "The Wrong Number" will have you gripping on the edge of your seat! A book that you will not put down until it's read from cover to cover.

I love reading the Fear Street books, and I'm 22 years old. Hey, I know you're laughing at me! I bet you there are people my age or older who read R.L. Stine.

Deena has a new phone so she and her best friend use the phone to make prank phone calls. But Chuck finds out that Deena and Jade are making phone calls. He insists that they let him join or else he'll tell. So Deena and Jade let him join. Then Chuck calls a house on Fear Street and interrupts a murder. Deena, Jade and Chuck go to the address to help the woman screaming. But it's too late because the woman is already is dead. A masked man chases the three warning them to mind their own business. One day after, the police drag Chuck to jail, now that everyone at Shadyside knows that Deena, Jade and Chuck are the ones behind the prank phone calls. The police say that someone saw Deena, Jade and Chuck that night. It was Mr. Farberson. Deena and Jade know that Farberson is wrong so they decide to find out more about him. If you want to find out more, read this book.

One night, Deena Mertinson and her best friend Jade Smith start making prank calls to people from their high school. Whether it's the school's biggest nerd or the most popular guy, Deena and Jade have fun calling and teasing them. Now Chuck, Deena's half brother is coming to stay with them in Shadyside because he got into a lot of trouble in Central City (where he lived before). At first, he is totally rude to Deena and her dad, and also starts causing trouble at his new school. One night, he discovers Deena and Jade making prank calls to some students, and blackmails to let him in on their game. Deena gets scared when Chuck starts making threats in his calls. In fact, things become worse when, one day, to prove a point, Chuck calls a random number and they all hear a woman about to be murdered! From this point on, the story turns into a murder mystery, where Deena, Jade and Chuck have to find out who the killer is, and which one of them is going to be his next victim!

Author R. L. Stine has he nicely put all the right elements to make this a good murder mystery book, containing moments of horror and suspense throughout. Once you start reading this book, you will find yourself turning the pages to see what happens next, and won't be able to put the book down at all. As the story progresses, you will find yourself at the edge of your seat, anxiously figuring out as to whether everything will be ok in the end or not.

This is one of the best Fear Street books that the author has written, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes reading horror/mystery books.

The Fear Street books were a great young adult triller series for me. I actually read more of those books from Stine than the Goosebumps series. I think The Wrong Number was my first Fear Street book.

Jade and Deena are the two main characters. They get their immature teenage kicks by making crank phone calls. That is until one call where they end up overhearing a murder being committed and decide to investigate, putting themselves is grave danger.

For the young adult genre, this is a really engaging horror/thriller/murder mystery. It's got the whodunit elements that keep you guessing. You definitely have the feel that these characters aren't immune to being killed, so you're tempted to read the book in one sitting. I wouldn't be surprised if the Scream movies (another horror thriller revolving around phone calls and masked antagonists) took an idea of two from this book.

I recommend this series. If you don't like it, at least it's a short read.

Book title: The Wrong Number

Author: R.L Stine

Number of pages: 165

Publisher and publication date: Parachute Press, 1990

ISBN: 0-14-20.0073-6

Price: $9.64

To prove to his sister Deena and her friend Jade that Fear Street is like any other street Chuck calls the first number he sees in the phonebook that has an address on Fear Street. "Please! Please come quickly! He's going to kill me!" A woman cried out.

"Who is this?" A man asks, "You've got the wrong number!"

"But I was just..." Chuck said

"You've got the wrong number!" the man interrupted, and then he hung up.

This book gives great details. For example, "The blob of green gel oozed like something from the bottom of a decaying swap."

Another reason why you should read this book is because it makes you want to keep reading it until your done, and here is the proof: Just beyond the door to the living room, illuminated by his circle of light, lay an outstretched arm. Next to its hand was a telephone receiver. Splattered over both were bright drops of blood.

Deena and Jade remind me of me and my friend Carrie. The lesson of this book is to never let your friend pressure you into doing anything you don't want to do.

Overall, this is the best book I have ever read that was wrote by R.L Stine this is even better than the Fear Street Cheerleaders series.

I recommend anyone can read this book, unless you're under five years old or less. Both boys and girls would like this book.

So don't ever make any prank phone calls because you might hear something you shouldn't have heard, and you might not have anywhere to call for help. You're not afraid, are you?

The most important thing I remembered about this book "The Wrong Number," was that it was super interesting and intense! Someone else would definitely want to read this book because it stays very good throughout the whole story. It really keeps you interested and wanting to read more. Any one who is any age can relate to this book. Since, it is about two teenage girls, a boy might want to read the back of the book first.

My favorite section of this book is when the two girls obviously make the wrong call. They have caller i.d., and then they track down the person that made the call. After that, the girls go down the Fear Street rode and hear screams coming from the caller's house. The two girls fear for their lives as they try to catch the murderer in action. I recommend this book immensely.

Best friends Deena and Jade are having fun making prank calls. Deena's half-brother joins them and starts making threatening calls. The joke is over when murder is on the line. Now they are the ones targeted for he knows who they are.

Another great novel by Stine.

This is the one of the many books of the Fear Street series, and it's really good. Fear Street is a series about scary and/or supernatural events that happen to teenagers in a ficitional town called Shadyside. In this book, best friends Jade and Deena and Deena's half brother Chuck get into ddep trouble making crank calls. The girls got caught by Chuck teasing boys at school, and he calls a random number on Fear Street and gets begged for help by a woman about to be murdered. The characters and plot are better than the average Stine book, and this book has a decent sequal. This has a pretty good twist ending and gives a good taste of future books in the series.Pulitizer material it's not, but for young teens, or anyone wanting a quick thrilling read, this suits the bill just fine.

I liked this book a lot because it made me want to keep on reading to find what happened next.

The book was about three teenagers who were having fun with prank phone calls. Then Chuck called a number on Fear Street and they got involved with a murder. When the three teenagers Jade, Deena,and Chuck go over to Fear Street, they go to house number 884. They went to the back door and it looked like someone had trashed the place. When all three of them were inside, they saw a dead body on the floor. They also saw a man in a mask. When Jade, Deena, and Chuck talked to the police, they did not believe a single word that they said. The police think that Chuck is the killer because his finger prints were the only prints in the house and he has been in trouble with the police before.

I would recommend this book to someone who likes to read mystery and horror books. I would recommend this book to someone who likes mystery books because you never know what is going to happen next and you are trying to find out who the killer is. I would also recommend this book to someone who likes to read horror books because someone dies.

I reccomend this book because it is a very literal piece of literature. It show youhow dangerous life really is and how you have accepted a challenge when you decide to pick up a phone .In this book R.L. Stine also uses great craft words and has a great way of using personification!