Hit and Run (Point Horror Series)

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Synopsis
"Hello?" More crackling. And then a sound like a gasp, a dry gust of wind. "You can't run away." The voice wasn't a whisper. It was a breeze. A burst of air. A burst of foul air. "You can't run away." And then the line went dead ... Out on the road helping Eddie practice for his driving test, Scott, Winks, and Cassie are horrified when Eddie accidentally hits and kills a pedestrian, and the four friends are soon keeping a terrible secret.
Copyright:
1992

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
185 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780590453851
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Robert L. Stine
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Horror, Literature and Fiction
Grade Levels:
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
Submitted By:
Guido Corona
Proofread By:
Guido Corona
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

5 out of 5

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Four high schoolers from Avondale North (Cassie Martin, the protagonist, Scott Baldwin, Eddie "Scaredy" Katz, and Bruce "Winks" Winkleman) secretly go out one evening to practice their driving on a nearby deserted road. However, on the way back home, they accidentally hit and kill a man crossing the street. The foursome try and keep it a secret, but too many odd things start to happen shortly after: the corpse of the man they killed is reported missing from the morgue, the four young teens start receiving threatening phone calls from the deceased man (Brandt Tinkers), as well as other signs to indicate the man isn't dead after all--or is he? Could this whole stunt really just be a sick joke?<p> "Hit and Run" loosely follows the path of Lois Duncan's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", except there's not as much bloodshed in this book as compared to the movie (which is surprising, since this is a Stine book), except for another hit-and-run targeting Winks. As is typical with any R. L. Stine book, the writing's spare and short, and there's a cliffhanger at the end of every chapter. The identity of the killer is pretty easy to guess as well (at least it was for me), and I'm sure most readers familiar with Stine's work will guess him/her nearly from the beginning. There is some morbid, juvenile humor (i.e., at the beginning with the human eye prank and at the end when they're playing around with a stiff), but I think the intended audience will probably enjoy it rather than be disgusted.