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Under pressure to perform well on her math exam, Carter Phillips persuades math whiz Adam to take the test for her in exchange for one date, but one date is not enough for the dangerous young man.Tags
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In this one Stine tries to leave us guessing by what he's left out, and it's not a bad strategy. I thought that Carter should have just told her father much sooner: once she did that, Adam would have no power over her. Adam couldn't have turned her into test authorities without getting in trouble himself, and he had no proof. The only thing that doesn't make sense is Dan's abandoning her after killing Adam "so they wouldn't be separated."
In this one Stine tries to leave us guessing by what he's left out, and it's not a bad strategy. I thought that Carter should have just told her father much sooner: once she did that, Adam would have no power over her. Adam couldn't have turned her into test authorities without getting in trouble himself, and he had no proof. The only thing that doesn't make sense is Dan's abandoning her after killing Adam "so they wouldn't be separated."
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R. L. Stine was born in Columbus Ohio on October 8, 1943. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1965. Under the name Jovial Bob Stine, he wrote dozens of joke books and humor books for kids including How to Be Funny, 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol. He also created Bananas, a zany humor magazine which he worked on for ten years. show more His first teen horror novel, Blind Date, was published in 1986 under the name R. L. Stine. His other works include Beach House, Hit and Run, The Babysitter, The Girlfriend, the Goosebumps series, and the Fear Street series. He also wrote an adult novel entitled Superstitious. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Cheater
- Original title
- The Cheater
- Original publication date
- 1993-04-01
- People/Characters
- Carter Phillips; Adam Messner; Dan Mason; Jill Bancroft; Judge Phillips; Melanie Phillips (show all 16); Ray Owens; Gary Brandt; Sheila Cross; Richard Smith; Ryan Dalton; Curt; Manny; Mr. Raub; Mr. Corelli; Henry Austin
- Important places
- North Hills Country Club; The Corner; Shadyside, Ohio, USA; Fear Street; Shadyside High; North Hills (show all 14); The Underground; Division Street Mall; Benny's; Bentley's Antiques; Corelli's Antiques; Sparkles; Fear Street Cemetery; Simon Fear Mansion
- First words
- The first time Carter Phillips thought about cheating, it was a joke.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dan glanced at the board and smiled. Then he moved his queen again and said, "Checkmate!"
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Horror, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .S86037 .C — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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