Calling All Creeps! (Goosebumps #50)

## Just Dial 5-5-5-C-R-E-E-P!

Poor Ricky! The hero of Calling All Creeps! is easily the biggest loser in the Goosebumps series. The poor kid has no friends and is bullied by literally his entire school -- even his teachers! 'Sicky Ricky' and 'Ricky Rat' are heard day to day, chanted by every student he runs into. It's hard to get into those shoes without feeling terrible.

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A new student, Iris, moves to town and offers an out from Ricky's loserdom -- he's finally finding a friend, but that friendship is put to the test by one of Ricky's bullies. The bully, Tara, cruelly barrages Ricky with insults in front of Iris, then fires him from the show more school's newspaper and guaranteeing him a place in summer school. Ricky gets back at Tara by breaking into the newspaper's office and inserting a mean message with her phone number attached. Unfortunately for Ricky, Tara is observant, catches his insult and turns it on him:

## Calling All Creeps! Calling All Creeps! If you're a real Creep, call Ricky after midnight at 867-5309

Ricky's awake all night, getting call after call from self-described 'Creeps.' The trouble continues the next day, with Creeps leaving him message throughout the school about their next meeting, about when they can start planting seeds and taking over....

Despite sporting one of the series' lamest covers, it's a solid, fun yarn. I remember having a lot of fun trying to decide what I'd do in Ricky's shoes when I was a kid -- whether the conspiracies taking place were real or imaginary (of course they're real!), and how I'd deal with the pressures of a possible invasion.

R.L. Stine's Goosebumps (1992–1997):
#49 Vampire Breath | #51 Beware, the Snowman show less

Ricky is one of the Stine's loser characters. Everyone makes fun of him and he generally has an awful time of things, but when he plans a prank on the newspaper editor, she switches it so the joke's on him. Suddenly he's being called commander by fellow student "creeps" who turn into purple monsters. They want to turn the whole student body into monsters with them, but Ricky tries to stop them- until he realizes that he can command everyone if it works...

Goosebumps. This is the series that kept me reading through my childhood. More than any other series, Goosebumps kept me interested in reading, and R.L. Stein is a wonderful children's writer. I applaud his efforts, and can't express enough my gratitude for the series.

This was not the worst book that i hve ever read but it is also not the worst. I like R.L.Stine's righting I mean he wrote the Goosebumps series. That series is one of my favorites that is meant to scare people. Even though I feel like it couldn't really scare anyone, but it is mainly to entertain people like all of the other books. I liked the concept that this particular book had though it amussed me and I thought about what if this kind of thing happend to me. Another thing that I liked about this book was that it was not very long I am not a fan of too long of a book. I would read it again if I started to forget it but I don't think that I would read it over another books that i prefer and have just read. I would recommend this book show more to someone that likes the scarrier type of reading.

This book is about a boy named Ricky that was trying to get revenge on some people that go to his school that made fun of him. His name is Ricky and they made fun of him constantly with names like Sicky Ricky and Ricky the Rat and things like that. His idea was to make it so the announcments in the morning would say calling all creeps. Then it would call the people that have been making fun of him into the office see how that would get them back. It doesn't work and it sends the message out and a group of aliens recieve the call. They come to help the person that called them and they think that he is their leader. Their plan is to turn all of the people that go to his school into Creeps just like them. It seemed like a good idea too bad Ricky isn't really one of them. show less

#50 "Just dial 555-C-R-E-E-P!"
Ricky Beamer has revenge on his mind. Revenge for being kicked off the school newspaper by the editor-in-chief Tasha McClain. And he's going to play a little joke on her. He'll show her that sixth graders are not nothing at Harding Middle School. But when his joke gets all messed up things start to get really weird. And Ricky ends up getting really "creeped" out!

Ricky is picked on consistently so he thinks he should pull a prank on a girl who is one of the main reasons he is picked on but when this prank back fires he runs into purple monsters called the creeps the creeps keep saying he is there leader and that he needs to put "identity seeds" in the school lunches and so ricky is faced with a choice he can save the people who pick on him or, he can let them eat the identity seeds when he learns that if they eat the seeds they turn into his slaves, the choice is obvious.

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