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R.L. Stine has more than 350 million English language books in print, plus international editions in 32 languages, making him one of the most popular children’s authors in history. Besides Goosebumps, R.L. Stine has written other series, including Fear Street, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Dangerous Girls. R.L. Stine lives in New York with his wife, Jane, and his Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Minnie. Visit him online at rlstine.com.

Trip Park grew up in Ithaca, New York, and went to college at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was first drawn to advertising. He then moved to Chicago, later New York, where he joined advertising agencies and worked on kids’ favorites including Cap’n Crunch, Gatorade, Kellogg’s, and Ronald McDonald. His children’s commercials have won numerous awards. But advertising also brought something equally as rewarding. There he got to work with some of his favorite illustrators. Watching these artists create their pieces inspired Trip Park to try his hand at illustrating himself.

Trip Park has illustrated a number of children's books including Gopher Up Your Sleeve, written by Tony Johnston, Trout, Trout, Trout! (A Fish Chant) and Ant, Ant, Ant! (An Insect Chant), both written by April Pulley Sayre. He has also developed characters and helped animate commercials for Nickelodeon, The California State Fair, Lego, and many others. When Rotten School came along, the opportunity to translate to the drawing board R.L. Stine’s cast of kids was a wonderful chance to combine his love for children’s illustration with this group of rotten students. His work can be seen at www.tripparkproductions.com.

Trip lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Laura and four children.

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Hey! Where Is Everyone?

That's what Bernie Bridges wants to know when he can't find any of his friends. Everyone has disappeared! And when he finally does find them, they're acting really weird. For instance, his shy friend Chipmunk thinks he is a fearless warrior, and football star Jennifer Ecch thinks she is a princess. What is going on?

Soon Bernie realizes that everyone at Rotten School is acting! They are all playing parts in a big battle. A battle between the Dum Diddys and the Knighty Knight Knights. But it's not a real fight. It's a video game called Wungo Warriors—and everyone has to pay that spoiled rich kid Sherman Oaks to play.

Bernie can't let Sherman get away with this. He has a plan to outsmart Sherman—by bringing the Wungo Warriors to life!

What Bernie doesn't know, though, is that a real-life battle between the Dum Diddys and the Knighty Knight Knights could shut down Rotten School forever.

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Rotten School #12: Battle of the Dum Diddys

By R.L. Stine

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2007 R.L. Stine
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780060788339

Chapter One

Here Comes Trouble

Was I in major trouble?

Does a moose have diarrhea in the woods?

There I was, Bernie Bridges, fourth-grade superstar. Hey, I'm not bragging. Ask anyone.

There I was, sitting with my shoulders hunched and my head down, in Headmaster Upchuck's office. And I knew the Headmaster didn't call me in to tell me a funny joke he heard.

And he didn't call me in to compliment me on the cool triple knot I tied in my blue, green, and puke-yellow Rotten School uniform necktie. (And by the way, no way I can untie it. I'm going to need help later—and maybe scissors—to get out of the thing!)

No, dudes and dudettes. When The Upchuck calls you to his office, it means you're in bi-i-i-i-i-g trouble.

Here at Rotten School, we call him The Big Man. That's because he's only about three feet tall. He's so short, he has to stand on a ladder to blow his nose!

Ha-ha. Don't you love jokes like that?

Well, this was no joke. I sat in front of his little toy desk. I think it came from a Barbie playhouse. It was the only desk he could find that was the right size!

He was talking on the phone.

Every once in a while he'd look up at me and scowl.

I thought hard.

What did I do wrong?

I could only think of twenty or thirty things.

Finally he set down the phone. He rubbed his ear.

His bald head glowed under the light from his computer screen.

He turned to me.

"Bernie . . ."

he said.

I didn't like the way he said it. I shuddered.

Here comes trouble. . . .

Continues...

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