Those three years were my most voracious reading years, partly because I had so much time on my hands. I stopped reading the endings first and started reading the pages in the correct order, at a rate of about one book a week throughout 5 th, 6 th, and 7 th grade. Slumber Party was an even more exhilarating read than The Babysitter. Once again, I read the ending of that book first and then went back to the beginning. That became my second read in the teen horror genre. My sister was raving about Christopher Pike’s Slumber Party which takes place during a stranded ski vacation where tragic events of the past come back to haunt a group of teenage girls. I remember I had to ask my sister, “What’s a rock quarry?” Once I knew how it turned out for that book’s heroine (spoiler alert: she lives), I went back and read the story from the start. Instead, I first read the climactic ending at the rock quarry where the villain tries to kill the babysitter.
At only ten years old, I was too scared to read the book from start to finish though.
My older sister and her best friend had started reading novels about teens in peril, and I wanted in on the excitement too. Stine’s The Babysitter and the book cover showed a terrified teenage girl peering out a window into the darkness. I cracked open my first one in 5 th grade. “Devoured” is a good word to describe the manner in which I would read teen murder mysteries and supernatural thriller/horror novels throughout my adolescence.
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