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AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1995 by Scholastic Paperbacks
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#29)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Salem U. is buzzing with holiday activities. Annie loves the holidays, until two of her friends have horrible accidents—and she may be next.

What Annie doesn't know is that one of her friends has a dark past. He has murdered a girl and now his mind is split in two. One part that of a student, the other that of a guilty killer.

He listens to "the voice in the mirror" that tells him that each new girl he meets is actually a reincarnation of the girl he killed, returning to expose him. The voice tells him he has no chance, unless he can eliminate the problem...permanently.

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AUTHOR: Diane Hoh
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Scholastic, Inc.
SERIES: Nightmare Hall (#15)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Mystery
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★★☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: It begins as a game.

When first-year student Parrie Moore meets the other girls at a party, joining them in their harmless game of Truth or Dare sounds like fun.

And at first it is. The dares are silly pranks that make them all laugh.

But gradually the dares become stranger, more dangerous. The game is taking on a life of its own.

Parrie is frightened. But it's only a game...or is it?

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AUTHOR: R.L. Stine
RELEASED: January 1, 1994 by Thorndike Press
SERIES: Fear Street (#16)
GENRE: Horror, Fiction, Urban fiction
AGE RANGE: Teen
RATINGS: ★☆☆☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Dying for a Date

Chelsea Richards is shy, lonely, and looking for love. She would give anything to finally go on a date. Soon there are two new boys in town, and both ask her out.

Too bad, one of them is a crazed killer. Poor Chelsea. Will her first date also be her last?

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AUTHOR: Carolyn Keene
RELEASED: January 1, 1988 by Grey Castle Press
SERIES: Nancy Drew Files (#1)
GENRE: Mystery, Fiction
AGE RANGE: Juvenile
RATINGS: ★★★☆☆
SYNOPSIS: Nancy Drew goes back to high school - but this time, the curriculum is murder.

No one has been able to catch the elusive thief who is stalking the nighttime halls of Bedford High. So Nancy goes undercover as a transfer student When she meets her contact, Daryl Gray, a gorgeous senior with blueberry eyes, Nancy thinks this new case would turn out to be a lot of fun. But she is dead wrong.

Dangerous secrets, run deep at Bedford, and Nancy learns the hard way when she takes Daryl for a ride in her Mustang - and the car ends up exploding in a ball of fire. Though her suspect list is long, Nancy is almost certain she knows who the thief is - until her top candidate is found sprawled outside the video lab, very dead.

Suddenly it's a whole new game, a game called murder. And Nancy is the killer's next target.

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