I think this is the most disturbing Goosebumps book I've ever read. Ricky is really bullied in school. People call him "Sicky Ricky" and "Ricky Rodent" and they regularly beat him up, taunt him, get him in trouble, etc. He has no friends, he has no allies. His life is hell. That all changes on the night he decides to take revenge...See? This is already sounding creepy, isn't it? So. Ricky sneaks into the school after hours and posts an ad in the school paper saying Calling All Creeps. Calling All Creeps. If you're a real Creep, call Tasha at 555-7609 after midnight.Well, that sounds like pretty lame revenge to me. But I guess I should be grateful it doesn't involve him bringing any firearms to school. The joke backfires when it Tasha catches the ad before the paper goes to print and changes the number to Ricky's number. Now he's getting a lot of phone calls."I saw your message," the voice whispered. "I am calling as you instructed." ... "When will the Creeps meet?"...(view spoiler)[The Creeps are aliens trying to colonize Earth. The four biggest bullies in the book turn out to be Creeps. They now think Ricky is their commander. They want to plant "identity seeds" into the school's food so that everyone will turn into a Creep. There is a new girl at school named Iris. She becomes a shining light in Ricky's life, she actually talks to him and wants to hang out with him. In the end, Ricky valiantly tries to save everyone from turning into Creeps. But everyone is just relentlessly harassing him and taunting him and throwing stuff at him, so he lets them all eat the contaminated cookies so that they will turn into Creeps and be his slaves.No word on what happens to Iris. (hide spoiler)]
I read every book I buy, okay? And I'm buying the Goosebumps books in their original covers whenever I spot them at, like, thrift stores and stuff, and so I'm reading this. It's tough getting back into a thousand-pager Sanderson after a read-a-thon.Also, Goosebumps.I'm pretty sure I read this one when I was a kid, but I didn't really remember it all that well. Mostly I remember the cover, I think - but re-reading it was so much fun. Goosebumps books just make me feel really great inside. I mean, okay, they can be a little weird, because it's Goosebumps, but I grew up with these suckers. I love them. And this one's a lot of fun.The book follows Ricky, who's pretty severely bullied. He doesn't really have any friends, and everyone picks on him, but for the most part it's these four kids that like to push him around, and the newspaper editor-in-chief, Tasha. After getting kicked off of the newspaper, he tries to get back at Tasha, but it sort of... backfires. In a very Goosebumps way.I'm going to be reading quite a few of these over the next few days. I just wish I had one of the Monster Blood books on my TBR... but Calling All Creeps! is a fun one.
What do You think about Calling All Creeps! (2007)?
In the 116 page book Calling All Creeps by R.L. Stine the main character is Ricky Beamer. He is the stereotypical nerd he was teased by most people in his school. During the night he sneaks out of the house to secretly put a message in the newspaper. He wrote “Calling all creeps, calling all creeps call if you’re a real creep call Tasha McClain. He sees the newspaper and Tasha mixed the message up she wrote Ricky’s number. He gets calls from creatures who call themselves creeps they think he is their leader so Rick has to make up a plan to turn the other kids into creeps, so he won’t get eaten by creeps. He puts the seeds in the tuna surprise. That doesn’t work because no one likes tuna surprise. So he makes another plan to put them in bake sale cookies and make the cookies free. Just as he’s about to tell them the cookies will turn you into creeps they start calling him “Ricky the rat”. So he lets them eat the cookies. He takes a cookie and eats one because if he’s a creep he will be the leader. I don’t like the ending because it is boring.I personally thought the book was mediocre but this book would be good for children and people who like creepy books.
—Glenn
Well, it's a book alright. Compared to he last book i read this was a riotfest. The story itself seems kinda dumb honestly, but it was well written. No scary, kind of suspensful. Told in male first person. i think I found a spelling mistake. Do you know the short word for "microphone"? Anywho, we have Ricky who's tired of being bullied and it out to get revenge on everyone in the school, but when a plan of his backfires, he must save the very same students he was trying to get revenge on <<< now that makes the book sound more interesting than it was. The characters were a bore except for Tasha. Not a bad book, I've read worse. Certainly have read better from RL, but well put together. The story starts off quickly in chapter one. Which is a refreshing change.
—David Santos
