Monsters on the March by Derek the Ghost

Author:Derek the Ghost [Ghost, Derek the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-01-19T13:00:00+00:00

It was mid-October at Scary School.

A heat wave was sweeping through the region, and the students were hard at work on their daily lessons. But they were happier to be inside the air-conditioned classrooms instead of outside in the blazing heat.

Far away in Monster Kingdom, King Zog was hard at work training legions of monsters in the ways of martial arts in preparation for the upcoming assault upon Scary School to retrieve his daughter.

In Mr. Grump’s sixth-grade classroom, the forgetful teacher was hard at work trying to remember the names of the kids who were raising their hands so that he could call on one to answer his question.

He pointed to Jason, who always wore a hockey mask, and said, “What’s your name?”

“Jason,” replied Jason for the third time that day. “The answer is Abraham Lincoln.”

By the time Jason had answered the question, Mr. Grump had already forgotten what the question was and had no idea whether Jason was right or not.

Mr. Grump looked around the classroom to see if he could pick up on whether the class thought Jason’s answer was right. He noticed that Petunia was nodding her head at him. She often nodded to indicate whether an answer was right or wrong, just so the lesson could move forward.

“That’s correct!” exclaimed Mr. Grump.

“Yes!” said Jason. Then he jumped out of his seat, put on his backpack, and bolted out of the classroom.

“Hey. Why did he leave?” asked Mr. Grump.

“Because,” said Wendy Crumkin, “you said that whoever could name the tallest president in US history could have the rest of the day off.”

“Oh. Why did I say that?”

“Because you said that we were about to have a surprise and none of us wanted to be here for it.”

“All right, if you say so,” said Mr. Grump. “Only now I can’t remember what the surprise is and I’m getting scared myself. Maybe I’ll go home too. Do any of you know where my house is?”

The doors burst open and everyone jumped in fright.

“Good afternoon,” said Mr. Snakeskin, the school gym teacher.

Mr. Snakeskin had big, bulging muscles all over his body and wore a red-and-blue sweat suit. His hair was chopped in a crew cut. He looked very mad most of the time. He could also remove his skin whenever he wanted and then put it back on because he was half zombie.

“For your big surprise today,” Mr. Snakeskin continued, “Principal Headcrusher has ordered that all of you must go swimming in Scary Pool during gym class to beat the heat. Now hop to it! We don’t have a second to waste!”

At that, Mr. Snakeskin ripped off his sweat suit. He was only wearing skintight swim trunks underneath. He marched out of the classroom, expecting everyone to follow.

Fritz was ecstatic. His day had finally come! He was terrible at sports and was always the last picked on every team. Because his class had never gone swimming in Scary Pool before, Fritz had never had a chance to show them the one thing he was good at.

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