For all of the fearless school librarians PRIVATE Do NOT turn another page... ...OR ELSE! MY SCHEDULE Student: Bash (ghost) Homeroom: Graves Period Class 1 Introduction to Scare Tactics with Ms. Graves 2 Cackles, Laughs, and other 3 Human Behavior with Headmaster Dave 4 Lunch with Captain Loosebeard 5 Advanced Creeping and Crawling with Prof. Snekk 6 Philosophy of Fear with Ms. Scully 7 Creature Intensive with Mr. Crane Sunday Tomorrow is my first day at Scare School. Dad's dropping me off in the morning. And since this is my TOTALLY PRIVATE notebook that no one else is going to read EVER, I guess I can say... I'm kind of SCARED. Which is kinda silly, I know. kids go to Scare School to learn how to BE SCARY, not to BE SCARED. But I can't help it. I've just never been very good at all the GHOST STUFF. Dad says I'm just a late bloomer. He says I'll learn my skills in no time, and that being at Scare School will help. He says the teachers there are the best of the best, and that soon enough I'll be as scary a ghost as any. He also keeps talking about how I'm going to make SO MANY friends.... But I'm not so sure about all that. And maybe the friend thing especially. I haven't spent much time around creatures my own age. And every time I have? Well, let's just say it never goes well. Dad also keeps bringing up my sister. "Bella went to Scare School," he says. "She loved it!" And yeah, I know. But that's because Bella is Bella. Bella was passing through brick walls as a baby. She could go invisible for a whole day by the time she was four. (She used to do it all the time when she didn't want to play with me.) Sometimes I think Bella was born with so much talent, there was none left over for ME. Another thing I'm kind of worried about is that I'm going to have a ROOMMATE. That means I have to share a bedroom with somebody else FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE YEAR! AND I DON'T EVEN GET TO PICK WHO IT'S GOING TO BE! But I have one more night here at home with Dad. So for now, I'm just going to focus on that. Last dinner at home with Dad (we are all my favorite things) (I just realized all my favorite foods start with the letter p....) Excerpted from Welcome to Scare School by Jarrett Lerner All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
