The Long Haul
Old School
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The Getaway
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Wrecking Ball
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ALSO BY ROWLEY JEFFERSON
GREG HEFFLEY'S
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID BOOKS
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Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
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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
The Demon
SPOOKY STORIES
BOO! Did that scare you?
If it did maybe you should put this book
down and pick something else that's a
little less scary. There are some good
books about unicorns and puppies and
other happy things that you can read until
you're ready for a book like this.
But if you like stories about skeletons
and zombies and human heads, then crawl
under the covers and turn the page.
And if you get too scared then you can
always sleep in your parents' bed. But
please don't tell them the reason you
got spooked because I really don't want
them to be mad at me.
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There once was a boy named Rowan,
and Rowan was a happy child. He had two
parents who loved him very much and he
had lots of toys to play with.
Sometimes Rowan would bring his toys
to school and play with them at recess,
but he stopped doing that after he got
bullied by some jerks.
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That made Rowan sad because he thought
playing with toys was the best thing
about being a kid. But Rowan's classmates
didn't feel the same way and they were
always trying to act older than they
really were.
One day when Rowan was in class he felt
a strange tickling sensation under his
armpit. He didn't know what it was so
he asked his teacher Mrs. Pennington
if he could please be excused to use the
restroom.
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When Rowan got to the bathroom he
took off his shirt and was shocked to see
a single hair growing from the center of
his armpit.
Rowan didn't know what to do so he
put his shirt back on and returned to
class. And when he sat down he felt like
everyone in the classroom could tell
something was different about him, even
Mrs. Pennington.
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When the final bell rang, Rowan ran all
the way home. He knew his mother kept
some tweezers in the bathroom and he
couldn't wait to use them to pull out
that hair.
But when Rowan took his shirt off he
could see it was too late for tweezers.
Suddenly hair started sprouting all OVER
Rowan's body. And before long he was
practically COVERED in it.
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By now Rowan was totally panicking. He
went through his parents' bathroom
cabinet to see if there was anything
that might help and he found something
he thought would do the trick.
But there's a reason kids shouldn't go
poking around in their parents' bathroom
cabinets. Because two seconds after
Rowan opened the bottle he passed out
from the fumes.
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When Rowan woke up he was in his bed.
At
first he thought maybe the whole
thing with the hair was just a bad dream
but one look at his arm told him it
wasn't.
Rowan's parents walked into his room
and he was afraid they were gonna be
mad at him for opening that bottle
of hair remover without asking. But
they didn't look mad at all. In fact, they
seemed kind of HAPPY.
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Rowan's parents said they'd been waiting
for this day for years and it was time
for them to have the "Talk."
Rowan thought they had already had the
Talk when his parents told him how babies
were made. But they said this one was a
totally different Talk.
His parents said that sometimes when
a child turns a certain age their body
starts to go through a "Changing." And
that made Rowan sad because he liked
himself just the way he was.
By now Rowan thought he knew where
this was heading so he asked the question
that had been on his mind all day.
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Well that made Rowan's parents laugh
and laugh. And Rowan felt embarrassed
because it took them a long time to
STOP laughing.
After Rowan's dad wiped the tears from
his eyes he said Rowan was still a boy
but he was a different KIND of boy. And
when Rowan asked what he meant by
that his dad gave him some bad news.
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This was definitely NOT what Rowan
wanted to hear. But when Rowan's mom
saw the worried look on her son's face
she said this was a day to CELEBRATE.
Rowan's parents told him he came from a
long line of werewolves. And suddenly the
pictures on the staircase wall made a lot
more sense to Rowan.
Then Rowan's parents gave him some
MORE bad news. They said THEY were
both werewolves too.
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Rowan started remembering clues
growing up that should've told him
his parents were werewolves. But he
guessed deep down he didn't want to
admit the truth.
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Then Rowan started crying. He said he
just wanted to be a regular kid and have
a normal life.
But his parents said a werewolf could live a
perfectly normal life as long as they kept
on top of their grooming and hid who they
really were from the rest of the world.
Rowan didn't WANT to hide who he was
though. He had always been taught to
be yourself and that's what he planned
to do.
But Rowan's parents told him there are
ignorant people in the world who don't
like anyone who is different.
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And Rowan knew exactly the type of
people his parents were talking about.
Then Rowan asked his parents a question
he wasn't sure he was ready to hear the
answer to.
Rowan's parents looked a little
uncomfortable and said that was a
subject for another Talk later on.
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But Rowan had a feeling he knew the
answer to his question so the next day
he brought his toys with him to recess.
And this time nobody dared to mess
with him.
Rowan's example inspired his parents to
stop hiding who THEY were too. And
from that day on Rowan and his family
lived as their true selves and everyone
else just had to deal with it.
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In a little seaside village somewhere in
Europe there lived a man named Jasper.
And everyone knew who Jasper was
because he was the village prankster.
Most of Jasper's pranks were pretty
harmless. One time he covered the
baker's car in gift wrap, and another
time he filled the village's only phone
booth with popcorn.
Sometimes Jasper would even prank
his own family members. And his mother
never really forgave him for gluing all of
her furniture to the ceiling.
But Jasper's most famous prank was
the time he put the mayor's underwear
up a flagpole, which everyone thought
was pretty hilarious. Well everyone
except the MAYOR.
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That was the thing about Jasper's
pranks. Most people thought they were
pretty hilarious unless they were the one
being pranked.
Anyway one morning Jasper woke up
trying to figure out who he was gonna
prank next. He couldn't decide if he
wanted to toilet paper his next-door
neighbor's house or replace the baker's
cream-filled donuts with toothpaste.
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The toilet paper thing felt like a lot of
work and it had been a while since Jasper
pranked Joris the baker so Jasper
decided he'd go with the donut thing for
today.
Jasper got out of bed and brushed
his hair, then headed up the hill to the
bakery. And on the way there he passed
a few people he knew.
He waved to Marian the dressmaker and
Miki the cheesemonger but neither one
waved back. But he figured they were
just sore at him for covering their shop
windows in mustard the week before.
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