First Date

by R.L. Stine

Book Overview

Fear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad that one of Chelsea's new boys has a terrible hobby -- murder. Now Chelsea may be looking for love, but he's looking for a new victim. The Fear is Catching.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671738658
• ISBN13: 9780671738655
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great book

I remember reading this in middle school back in the day and it's better than I remembered. Highly recommend this book and series

Poor Girl...

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, a sweet, shy girl who has trouble with boys happens to meet two interesting ones. Too bad one's a deranged killer, the mystery is, which one? 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.

One Of Stine's Best

First Date is one of the best books in the Fear Street series. Although predictable, it still had style and substance, and actually contained some very suspensful parts, unlike other Fear Street books. The book describes 15 year old Chelsea Richards, a shy, lonley, high school student who is looking for love. She soon meets two boys, a 20 year old high school dropout by the name of Tim Sparks, and a new boy at school named Will Blakely. Soon both of them ask her out, although when she finds out the FBI are on the trail of a serial killer who looks alot like Tim Sparks, she rats him out and chooses to go on her first date with Will Blakely. Unfortunately for Chelsea, Will is the actual serial killer. His real name is Lonnie Mayes, and he kills girls who look like his mother or his sister in each town he visits. Will Chelsea's first date also be her last?

Good book, but not great

This book was good, but he revealed the killer way too soon. I have read a ton of Stine's books, and this defiently wasn't his best book.

R.L. STINE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought this was a great book even though I thought Stine should've kept the killer a secret. But like I said,it was a great book. R.L. Stine is the best and you'll agree when you read this book

R.L. Stine is the best.

This book keeps the reader turning the pages from the begining to the end. The reader thinks the killer may be a number of people and finally you realize who it is