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    Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic
    Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic
    Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic
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    Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic

    By Mark Tatulli

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    "Tatulli's entry into the comics/fiction--hybrid market is one of the best…The target audience will snap this up and beg for more."

    ---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    "This is full of ghoulish fun, and fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid probably won't want to miss it."
    ---School Library Journal

    "Desmond Pucket neatly fills a gap for our readers---it's a step more sophisticated than Diary of a Wimpy Kid but appeals to that reader. It's also so great to have a Halloween/monster/scary stuff series to offer boys that is not Goosebumps."
    ---Rebecca Waesch, Children's Product Manager, Joseph-Beth Booksellers

    Meet Desmond Pucket---professor of frightology and master of monsters.

    Someday Desmond will be famous for his special effects wizardry, but for now he's just trying to make it through sixth grade at Cloverfield Memorial Junior High, which means he needs to stay one step ahead of the school's disciplinary officer, Mr. Needles.

    The only problem is Desmond just can't stop pulling pranks---like the time he attached a shrieking rubber goblin to the toilet seat in the teachers' bathroom. Mrs. Rubin screamed so loudly her wig flew off! Or the time he put giant motorized worms into the mashed potatoes in the cafeteria. Or the time Desmond and his best friend, Ricky, arranged for a three-headed ghost to crash his sister's slumber party. Rachel still hasn't forgiven him.

    And now Desmond has to stay prank-free for the rest of the year, or he won't be able to go on the class trip to Crab Shell Pier, home of the Mountain Full of Monsters ride! It's going to be tough, but Desmond has to try.

    This book includes a section of "Desmond's Notes": instructions for making monster magic (think scary noises, or fake blood) at home!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781449440640
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      Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic - Mark Tatulli

      Mom! Mo-o-o-o-o-o-o-mmmm . . .

      I groan in my best I’m-about-to-blow-chow voice.

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      Mom knows the sound well from all the late-night fevers throughout the years, when she held my puking head.

      I hear a stirring down the hall. Then my mom’s familiar clunky footsteps on autopilot as she makes her way to my room, flipping on light switches as she goes.

      Mom pushes through my door and comes to my bedside, her face full of concern.

      What is it, Des? Are you sick?

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      I make gurgly noises.

      I spit blood.

      A large red stain spreads across my belly as a claw rips through my shirt and a slimy, multi-eyed, many-fanged creature breaks out of my stomach with a screech, its tentacles jiggling and blood spurting from the gaping hole!

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      She’s so on to me.

      We’ll talk about this more in the morning, mister, Mom says as she stomps out of the room, huffing that mom-huff that all mothers learn at mom training school.

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      Mom can say a lot with one huff. That one was the famous you’re-on-my-last-nerve huff. And it’s probably not a good idea to make my mother huffing mad right now.

      Because Mom’s the one person keeping me from getting kicked out of Cloverfield Memorial Junior High School!

      I guess I should explain.

      My name is Desmond Pucket, and as you probably already guessed, I’m into all kinds of scary stuff. I’m a Professor of Frightology, with a Master’s in Monsters. Or, as I like to call myself . . .

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      Someday I’m going to be rich and famous for creating the most amazing and horrifying amusement park haunted house rides ever! That’s my dream!

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      Maybe I’ll even make something greater than the biggest haunted dark ride in the whole world, the MOUNTAIN FULL OF MONSTERS at Crab Shell Pier!

      I design, draw, and create all of my own scary-monster effects . . .

      Like my math teacher, Mrs. Raup, says, If you could draw your lessons, Desmond, you’d be a straight-A student! Those were her exact words when she handed me back my last test, with the Stomach Screecher drawn on the back of page two . . . and a big fat F at the top of page one.

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      I’m not rich and famous yet, either. I’m only in junior high, and my weird hobby makes grown-ups nervous. Especially teachers and important-looking bald guys with half glasses and vomit green sweaters, also known as school officials.

      I’m not sure what it is that makes them official . . . Maybe it’s those vomit green sweaters. Maybe those special sweaters are handed out in some secret ceremony.

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      It’s not that I’m a bad kid. I’ve never hurt anyone. And I’ve never gotten into any real trouble . . . not until this year, anyway. But suddenly my special monstery interest is getting more attention and I’m skating on thin ice.

      Now Mom is the only thing standing between me and getting tossed by the vomit-green-sweater wearers!

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      OK, to tell this right, I think I have to go back in time a bit. See, this all really started a few years ago . . .

      I was only seven years old at the time, but I knew that Crab Shell Amusement Pier was going to suck eggs big-time.

      Our whole family really wanted to go

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