Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories: Jeff Kinney: 3 (Awesome Friendly Kid)

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This book contains 14 chapters: The Changing, The Prankster, Ghost Friend, The Biter, The Human Head, The Scanner, The Cellar, The Nap, The Stain, a mummy, The Science Project, The Medicine Cabinet, The Invasion, and The Demon.

Content Warnings: The book starts out with a parody of a warning (quoted at the very top of the tropes list) telling us to read some other book if we can't handle horror. Rowley’s spooky stories might leave you laughing, but beware, you could end up sleeping with the lights on! Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1 international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid!Defanged Horrors: Not many of the stories are outright horrific, often having some sort of wholesome twist on them by the end. This is intentional, since it's Rowley writing the book, and he's easily scared himself. Fourteen original tales featuring ghosts, mummies, and other staples of beneath-the-bedsheets terror. Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson's imagination. You'll meet zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales.

Prank Gone Too Far: After the town pranks Jasper, he's told that it wasn't a prank; a meteor came the night before and wiped out the town. Jasper realizes that if he's a ghost, he can fly, and tries to fly to Paris. The townsfolk realize they took things too far when Jasper ends up falling off a lighthouse. Durch die einzigartige Bild-Text-Kombi ist auch dieser Band das ideale Buch für Lesemuffel. Da zudem der Schreibstil von Jeff Kinney erneut sehr einfach gehalten ist, sollten Kinder ab etwa 9 Jahren bei „Rupert präsentiert: Echt unheimliche Gruselgeschichten“ keinerlei Probleme mit dem Selberlesen haben. Actually Not a Vampire: Lilli in The Biter is thought to be a vampire since she had sharp teeth and really liked to bite things. It turns out she just likes to bite things, though her parents still tell people that Lilli is a vampire since that got her a lot of friends. Surprisingly Sudden Death: Gabe just... dies. No reason why he dies, all we know is that he's a ghost now and he's dead. You may know Greg Heffley from his Diary of a Wimpy Kid stories. Yeah, well Rowley Jefferson is Greg’s best friend. He’s a generally nice kid, even though he does make some kinda silly, nonsensical choices sometimes that end up landing Greg in hot water.Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Aside from Ghost Friend and a mummy, every story is named "The ____". Sandy Saito loves baseball, and the Vancouver Asahi ballplayers are his heroes. But when they lose in the 1941 semifinals, Sandy’s dad calls it a bad omen. Sure enough, in December 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor in the U.S. The Canadian government begins to ban Japanese people from certain areas, moving them to “dormitories” and setting a curfew. Sandy wants to spend time with his father, but as a doctor, his dad is busy, often sneaking out past curfew to work. One night Papa is taken to “where he [is] needed most,” and the family is forced into an internment camp. Life at the camp isn’t easy, and even with some of the Asahi players playing ball there, it just isn’t the same. Trying to understand and find joy again, Sandy struggles with his new reality and relationship with his father. Based on the true experiences of Japanese Canadians and the Vancouver Asahi team, this graphic novel is a glimpse of how their lives were affected by WWII. The end is a bit abrupt, but it’s still an inspiring and sweet look at how baseball helped them through hardship. The illustrations are all in a sepia tone, giving it an antique look and conveying the emotions and struggles. None of the illustrations of their experiences are overly graphic, making it a good introduction to this upsetting topic for middle-grade readers.

Happens in Ghost Friend, where Rusty’s grades are lowered dramatically and can’t get a job or wife because Gabe had bothered him so much he couldn’t focus on a single thing. You’ve got the tale of an airport scanner that turns people into living skeletons (which isn’t all that bad when you consider the savings on makeup and hair gel). And then there’s the story of The Stain, a lie that spreads to creepy proportions. The Human Head is all about a kid who was school friends with the Headless Horseman before that villain had even learned to ride a pony. And there are 11 more like those.Headless Horseman: He appears in The Human Head, and his name is Gunther. The reason he became evil was because his crush chose his friend Anders over him, making him jealous. He actually strikes during Valentines Day and not Halloween, unlike most people think. Lilli was a girl. From when she was a baby, she liked putting things in her mouth and occasionally, put her parents' things in her mouth as well. Her doctor said she was teething to her parents. Lilli's teeth started to come in and they were really sharp. As Lilli got older, she had playdates but the other kids always ended up crying because of you know what. She was bought books about not biting but she never stopped. Plus books were one of the favourite things Lilli liked to chew on. Lilli was now old enough for kindergarten but her parents didn't warn the teacher that Lilli liked to bite people and she bit the teacher so she got sent home early. Lilli's parents saw the doctor and she said Lilli was a vampire. Lilli's mother then remembered how Lilli had become a vampire and she started considering Transylvania: School for Biters. A few weeks later, the doctor said that Lilli actually wasn't a vampire and they kept it a secret between themselves.