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Be Careful What You Wish For

  • 1993 first published
  • 128 pages
  • ★ 3.6 (5 ratings)
  • 23 editions

Published in 1993, Be Careful What You Wish For is a ghost story and horror novella by Robert Lawrence Stine. Key subjects include wishes, Basketball, revenge and accidents.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 62 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 23 editions across 3 languages.

It runs to roughly 128 pages — 2–3 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Be Careful What You Wish For

Samantha Byrd's wish to be the strongest basketball player turns out differently than she expected.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Horror stories
  • Horror tales
  • Children's fiction
  • Wishes
  • Horror fiction
  • Basketball stories
  • Basketball
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Horror
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Monsters
  • Revenge
  • Accidents
  • Ghosts

Quick answers

Who wrote Be Careful What You Wish For?

Be Careful What You Wish For was written by Robert Lawrence Stine and first published in 1993.

What genre is Be Careful What You Wish For?

It is usually shelved as Ghost Stories and Horror.

How long is Be Careful What You Wish For?

The median edition has 128 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Be Careful What You Wish For?

Readers who like it often enjoy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, From a Buick 8 and The Screaming Staircase.

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