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The lifeguards at North Beach Country Club know they're lucky. While other kids are flipping burgers, they're sunning themselves by day and partying by night. So what if some people say the place is cursed, haunted. This is the life! And then, one by one, the lifeguards start to die horrible deaths. Someone--or something--evil is stalking them. They all know how to save other people's lives...but who will save theirs?Tags
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When a group of teens signs up to be lifeguards at a summer resort, it seems like the perfect summer job—until one of them ends up dead. As strange accidents and eerie disappearances start piling up, the mystery deepens: who is the killer, and what secrets are the lifeguards hiding? One girl is convinced the answers lie in the past… and that someone—or something—is watching.
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It took a little while to puzzle this one out. I knew that Mouse couldn't be May-Ann or Arnie because those would have been too obvious. I had a fleeting thought that it might be "Lindsay" going back and forth, but I knew it must be one of the other lifeguards. I didn't figure out the exact particulars, but I knew that "Lindsay" was really some other person affected by her death (I was thinking a sister). All this deduction came down to the fact that all these stories are basically the same.
It took a little while to puzzle this one out. I knew that Mouse couldn't be May-Ann or Arnie because those would have been too obvious. I had a fleeting thought that it might be "Lindsay" going back and forth, but I knew it must be one of the other lifeguards. I didn't figure out the exact particulars, but I knew that "Lindsay" was really some other person affected by her death (I was thinking a sister). All this deduction came down to the fact that all these stories are basically the same.
I wrote a review for this book on my blog: The Real World According To Sam
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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 Dead Lifeguard
- Original title
- The Dead Lifeguard
- Original publication date
- 1994-06-01
- People/Characters
- Lindsay Beck; Danny; Pug; Cassie Harlow; Arnie Wilts; Deirdre Webb (show all 13); May-Ann Delacroix; Spencer Brown; Pete Harris; Marissa Dunton; Jack Mouser; Mrs. Brown; Officer Malone
- Important places
- North Beach Country Club; Fear Street; Shadyside, Ohio, USA
- First words
- Hi, Terry.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"That I'm okay," I replied
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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 .D — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 5 — Czech, Dutch, English, French, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
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