The New Year's Party (Fear Street Super Chillers, No. 9) (Mass Market Paperback)

by R. L. Stine (Author)
Key Phrases: Burger Basket, Shadyside High, New Year's Eve (more...)

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Product Description
Indirectly causing the death of P. J., who had a bad heart, the attendants at Reenie's Christmas party agree to hide the body and the truth until someone begins to hunt down and kill each in turn.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Simon Pulse; Repack edition (December 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671894250
• ISBN-13: 978-0671894252
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #314,859 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Fear's Party..., August 12, 2001

By	Hannibal "hannibalecter7" (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

One thing you should do before reading The New Year's Party: buy it. I highly recommend everyone buy this book before casting your eyes on the first page because as soon as you've finished reading it for the first time you'll want to read it again and again to go over the story once more and to just pick up on those things you sorta missed the first time. Okay, enough buying recommendations, what about the book? Well, I loved it. I thought it was extremely clever and really entertaining to read, and it stands as one of R.L. Stine's finest achievements to date. That man writes much better when he knows he's writing for teens and not children. At the start I didn't really care about the characters in The New Year's Party, but when the horror really starts to roll around, you start to wonder if this mysterious killer is going to get Reenie and her friends or not and you really start to care about them. The mystery is really, well, mysterious. I kind of guessed the plot twist before the end came but that wasn't a problem because I still enjoyed reading the final few chapters. The book really builds on its suspense and is a total page-turner. I read this book in two days. Maybe that's a record for me and how fast I read chapter books. This fabulous mystery will probably be the most enjoyed by young adults and teenagers, but I recommend everyone have a good, scary time reading it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Year's Party, September 15, 2006

A Kid's Review

This book was about a group of friends on New Year's Eve who are about to count down the New Year, but something's gone wrong. Someone is crashing the party and one boy gets offended by it. It's icy on the road so he goes for a drive. Now no one can find him. Now you have to go read the book to figure out everything else and see what happens to him and his friend Beth. I recommend this book strongly to people who like horror books and books that have a lot of suspense. This book makes you want to read ahead the whole time to see what's going to happen. That's why I like this book a lot. I would tell anyone to read this book. There wasn't anything I didn't like about it. The book was really cool because the time base was 1965 and it was really cool to see how something really haven't changed from now and then. Sometimes in this book I could picture myself there at the party as scared as they all were. The end and close to the end of the book is really surprising and kind of hard to believe. That's why I loved it. This book is now of my favorites and I like it a lot like I have already said. So that's why I suggest you go and buy this book! (:

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ring in the new fear., April 22, 2004

By	Josh (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

Reenie and the kids at her Christmas party decided to play a prank on P.J., the new kid at school who never talks. But they're prank goes much farther than they planned--P.J. ends up dead. And when P.J.'s body disappeared, the terror got even bigger. Now, someone is taking P.J.'s revenge by killing Reenie's friends one by one. When midnight strikes, they'll all be dead.

I really love Fear Street books, but this one has got to be one of the best of them all! It had horror, romance, mystery, and a little bit of historical fiction. I really liked how some parts of the book took place in 1965, and some parts now. The beginning was kind of boring, but then it started to get much better. And like most Fear Street books, the ending is a complete shock.