The Boyfriend

by R.L. Stine

Book Overview

Joanne is flippant about her relationship with the people in her life, but when her recently deceased boyfriend returns from the grave, her life is no longer a laughing matter This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590432796
• ISBN13: 9780590432795
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 176 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

What I Think

I think the book was really good. I liked it alot and would give it 5 stars. It always kept you on the edge of your seat. You could never put it down for very long because you would always be wondering about what was going to happen.

R. L. Stine's "The Boyfriend"

I read this story when I was in high school. My sister bought it and read it, and though I seldom read YA novels, I did pick this one up and finished it in a couple of hours. It was really very good, the best YA book I had read to date. Because I liked it, I read a lot of R. L. Stine novels after that. "The Boyfriend" was the best of them.Joanna, the main character, is a rich girl who has a thing for wild boys. Dex, the "boyfriend", is a talented boy, an actor, who lives with his aunt on the wrong side of town, and he's Joanna's type...at first. But the differences between them, that they move about in different social circles, doesn't sit well with Joanna and she gets bored with Dex and stands him up a lot. She has her eyes on Shep, a boy from a well-to-do family.In the middle of the night, after being stood up again, Dex persuades Joanna to go for a ride to the canyon accompanied by his friend Pete. Once at the Promontory, Dex starts goofing off like he always does, playing around on the edge of the cliff...and slips. Joanna hears Dex's body break as it hits the ground below. And in a rush of terror and confusion, she drives away from the scene and gets into a car accident.Joanna winds up in the hospital with minor injuries but Pete tells her that Dex didn't make it. 'Dex is dead, Joanna,' Pete says, 'and you RAN away!' Joanna feels bad, tells Pete she was going for help. He doesn't believe her and leaves angry. She is sad to hear that Dex is dead, but strangely feels relieved too.But Dex comes back from the grave to torment Joanna for abandoning him.The characterizations are among R. L. Stine's strongest and in the end the reader is still uncertain as to what really happened to Dex that night at the Promontory. I won't let the cat out of bag, but after finishing the book, you'll understand what I mean.I recommend this story highly.

The Boyfriend (Point Thriller)

I have a collection of the Fear Street books. I love them and when R. L. Stine comes out with a new Fear Street book I have to have it! The books he writes put you on your edge of your seat because it's so intense and suspenseful! I thought this book was great! I would read it all over again. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to be put on their edge of their seat! Thanks!

A Total Must!

The book was really neat! It's about a rich girl, who stands her boyfriend up for a date. Then, he sneaks in to her room and the go for a drive. They end up on a cliff, and the boy is performing on the edge, he slips, he falls, he dies. The girl, never loved him anyway, and is glad he's dead, and gone, forever... or is he! This story had a really unexpected ending! It's an all around great book!

The Boyfriend

This book was awesome! It's one of the first R.L Stine books I ever read. I highly suggest this book and I know you won't be dissapointed! I never would have guessed the ending!