Rotten School #3: The Good, the Bad and the Very Slimy

By R. L. Stine and Trip Park

April-May June Loves Bernie Bridges . . . she just doesn't know it yet.

She's the coolest hottest girl in the school and Bernie thinks she should go to the dance with him.

April-May won't even be seen with Bernie because he's such a troublemaker.

So Bernie makes her a promise—a really scary promise. He says he'll stay out of trouble for a whole week if she promises to go to the dance with him.

Bernie is shaking, quivering, quaking. Can he turn into a goody-goody—especially when it's time for the famous (against the rules!) super slimy slug race?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: May 14, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061907227

R. L. Stine

R.L. Stine invented the teen horror genre with Fear Street, the bestselling teen horror series of all time. He also changed the face of children’s publishing with the mega-successful Goosebumps series, which went on to become a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Guinness World Records cites Stine as the most prolific author of children’s horror fiction novels. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, and their dog, Lucky.

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Chapter 1

A BRAND-NEW BERNIE

You are probably wondering why I—Bernie Bridges—decided to change my behavior, change my personality, and become a whole new kid.

A new Bernie Bridges! It’s a frightening thought—isn’t it?

Especially since the old Bernie Bridges was perfect!

Well, the new Bernie Bridges had to be even perfecter. You’ll see why….

Don’t get me wrong. I think life is great here at the Rotten School. I think all kids should go to boarding school and live away from home.

My buddies and I live in an old house at the back of the campus, called Rotten House. No parents! It’s a terrific life.

Of course, we do have some problems with those goody-goody kids who live in the dorm across from us. It’s called Nyce House. What kind of geek would live in a place called Nyce House?

But, I’m getting away from my story. And I know you’re very eager to hear my story—since it’s all about me.…

It started one night after dinner in the Student Center. That’s where my guys and I go every night to shoot some pool, play video games, and hang out.

I was hurrying to the game room. Tuesday night is slug race night, and I was late. I had Sluggo, my racing slug, wrapped up safely in my shirt pocket.

I carried Sluggo into the game room and started to unwrap his little velvet blanket. The guys were waiting around the pool table.

I saw my pals Feenman and Crench standing behind me. They were holding up signs to cheer us on.

Hey, Bernie, you’re late, Feenman cried.

No problem, I said, rolling my big slug around in my hand. "Sluggo is feeling strong tonight. And fast. Aren’t you, Sluggo?"

He oozed a warm liquid into my hand. I guess he was trying to answer me.

That spoiled brat, Sherman Oaks—my arch-enemy—grinned across the table at me. He was petting a fat, silvery slug.

He had his buddies from the Nyce House dorm with him.

The big, beefy hulk, Joe Sweety, leaned over the table, putting his slug through its warm-up exercises. Wes Updood stood next to him, tossing his slug up in the air and catching it.

My friend Beast flashed me a thumbs-up. Beast is very big and very hairy. He grunts a lot, and sometimes he walks on all fours. But we’re pretty sure he’s human. (At least 80 percent human.)

Nosebleed, another kid from my dorm, leaned against the wall with his head tilted back, trying to stop a nosebleed.

I set Sluggo down on the table and started to give him a rubdown. We all train our own slugs. We race them from one end of the pool table to the other. Sometimes the slugs forget they are in a race. So we poke them with toothpicks to keep them moving. (They don’t seem to mind.)

I turned to Sherman. Sluggo has won five races in a row, I said. He’s going to leave your new slug in his slime trail.

Sherman shook his perfect, wavy blond hair. I don’t think so, Bernie. I brought a secret weapon tonight.

He plopped a white paper bag on the table—and pulled out a big hunk of raw meat. Hamburger, he said. "It’s gone rotten. See? It’s turning green and purple. My slug, Godzilla, loves it. I put the spoiled meat at the end of the

Reviews for Rotten School #3

[kait_scott_3 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book i s about a boy named Bernie. HE like this Girl named April-May.He asked her to the dance. But she wanted to say no because he was to big of a trouble maker and didn't get good enough grades.So then he made a bet with her that he would be good for a weeek as long as she went to the dance with him.Then something whent wrong.This kid named Shermand play a prank on him.This prank made the nurse think he was sick makeing him miss the big history test.So him and April-May didn't get to go to the dance together. I think this book was really good. I think this because it has good dicrpiton. I also liked it beacuse it was one those story to were if you don't read one page you'll be lost. One last reason is bcause it was really intrusting.

[tyscottrocks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

this book is writen by R.L. Stine. this book takes place at Rotten School. rotten school is a boarding school. the main character Breine has a slug called sluggo. sluggo is a vegatarien. and the school startes to race slugs and betting money on witch slug willwin. the rules are winers take all. Berine's slug has been undefeated for five race. their are two majoir thangs and someminor t. the first thang is that he is trying to get aprilk may june. the another is to sell candy bars becuse, the candy bar machine messed up and keept spiting out the nutternutterbs bars.i recomand this book for other peopal ti read, beacuse again R.L. knows how to catch the reader and pull them into the book. this book describes the characters very good. theis book is a good book becuse it has a lot of twist turns and surpies in this book.