Hide and Shriek

by R.L. Stine

Book Overview

A new series sure to tap the lucrative Goosebumps market. Randy Clay makes some new friends after moving to Shadyside. Playing hide and seek with them in the Fear Street woods, she hears about the legend of a ghost named Pete who plays along. If he tags you, he keeps your body for a year. But, it's just a game . . . isn't it?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671529412
• ISBN13: 9780671529413
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Minstrel
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

He's Gonna Get You

Randi is in trouble. In the book, Randi has just moved to Shadyside. When she comes, everyone is talking about someone named Pete. At first, Randi thinks he's the popular kid in school until she hears the stories about Pete's disapearence and how every year he takes someone's body. And how he likes new kids. Then the only advice she can give to new kids is to tell them "He's gonna get you". That is if she can survive the year where she'll eat worms?

Hide and Shriek a review by: Molly

Have you ever heard of a town where people play hide-and-go-seek for a dead little boy once a year? In the book Hide and Shriek by R.L. Stine a girl named Randy moves to a strange town on a street called Fear Street. Randy goes to school and sees a poster that says something about a boy's birthday. She heard many other students talking about the birthday. Her friend told her that they celebrate a boy named Pete's birthday once a year. All of the children in the town gather together and play a game of hide and seek. Randy had to watch her little sister one night and saw a strange boy at the window and then he disappeared. Next Randy went to sleep over and asked her friends who Pete was. Her friends told her that Pete was a little boy who died and loved to play hide and seek. Her friend told her that you would play hide and seek on his birthday and in the woods at night. They told her that Pete's ghost would try to catch somebody and take over their body for a whole year. Randy thought that the strange boy was the person Pete had caught. When the big day came almost every child in town came. Randy started to run and heard footsteps so she ran up a tree. She felt breathing on her neck and saw the strange boy. Randy ran to the cemetery and the boy followed. She saw Pete's grave and he told Randy he would take over her body. Little ghost children came and put Pete back in his grave forever. Randy and the strange boy were shocked and wondered if Pete would return again and take over someone else's body. Will Pete play again? You have to read this book because you will be on the edge of your seat!

Do I HAVE To Play?

I've read just about every single book in the Ghosts of FearStreet series, and still none of them can top the first tale from thisFear Street knock-off. Author Emily James did a great job with her characters, twisting them all up into a great plot, all the ingredients for a masterpiece. Brilliantly represented and plot twists you were never expecting. By the time Hide and Shriek II came out, I had stopped reading the series, long believing it to be dead. I picked it up anyway, and it definitely didn't live up to what I was hopeing for from such a great first. Hide and Shriek is a must-read for anyone who likes horror. And I bet you'll think twice before playing hide-and-seek in the dark again.

It rocks

I liked the book because it had good characters. I also liked it because it was scary. It was nice to read. My best character was Pete.

It is a great and scary book !

It has been the the best book I ever read . This book was about a new girl in town. Someone in shool told her about a kid named Peter they said that each year on his birth day he would come and take over a body specialy new people . Will he get her?