Scary School

by Derek the Ghost

  Once school resumes in September, the students will get to go on a trip to Albania to meet the Monster King and I can’t wait to tell you all about it in the next book.

  I can tell you that after that Ghoul Games, everything changed. Scary School is no longer considered a lesser school in the Scary community. Human children are now accepted into Scary schools all over the world, and humans and monsters are finally becoming friends for the first time ever.

  So, whenever you’re alone in the dark, or you’re lost in a forest, or if you hear strange noises in the middle of the night . . .

  You don’t need to be as scared as you used to be.

  Note from your author:

  Derek the Ghost

  Congratulations! You have survived your first year at Scary School.

  You should consider yourself extremely lucky. I didn’t think you stood a chance, but I guess even ghosts can be wrong.

  However . . . you aren’t finished quite yet.

  Go to ScarySchool.com and take Ms. Fangs’s Scary School quiz to unlock the secret chapter that will show you what happened on the last day of Scary School this year.

  And here's a sneak peek!

  Chapter Twenty-three

  The Secret Chapter

  It was June 11, the last day of school.

  Principal Headcrusher announced to every class:

  “As a special treat on the last day of school, Jacqueline has decided to let us all take a tour of the haunted house she has built in the school yard, which she just finished this very morning.”

  As you may recall, Jacqueline is my eight-year-old sister. She spent the entire school year building a haunted house for me so I’d have a place to live. Nobody believed that a haunted house built by an eight-year-old girl could be all that scary, but they were in for the biggest surprise of their lives.

  To read the rest of this chapter, visit ScarySchool.com and take Ms. Fangs’s Quiz!

  About the Author

  Derek the Ghost is an eleven-year-old ghost who haunts the classrooms and hallways of Scary School writing down all the spine-tingling, often hilarious things that go on there. Despite his ghostly state, Derek still enjoys reading comic books and hopes to one day become a master ninja. If that doesn’t work out, he will continue to share the fun of this very special, very secret school, so all kids can experience the scariest school on Earth. You can visit him online at www.scaryschool.com.

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  Credits

  Jacket art © 2011 by Scott M. Fischer

  Jacket design by Erin Fitzsimmons

  Copyright

  Scary School

  Text copyright © 2011 by Derek Taylor Kent

  Illustrations copyright © 2011 by Scott M. Fischer

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kent, Derek Taylor.

  Scary School / by Derek the Ghost ; scary pictures by Scott M. Fischer. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Describes a year at Scary School, where werewolves, zombies, and humans mingle and the teachers range from dragons to vampires.

  ISBN 9780062084552

  [1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Humorous stories.] I. Fischer, Scott M., ill. ll. Title.

  PZ7.K4132Sc 2011

  [Fic]—dc22

  2010015223

  CIP

  AC

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  EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062084552

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