Bewitched Books of Shinglepits High

By GP White

Embark on an exhilarating adventure below the floorboards into the enchanting world of Shonglepats Kingdom! 

When Flick and Joey accidentally unleash a magical potion, they are thrust into a realm where characters from books come alive. With Roman guards, a mythi

• Language: English
• Publisher: Magic Bookshelf
• Release date: Jun 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781919631189

Book preview

Author’s NOTE

Books are magic!

When you pick up a book and open the cover you unleash a story.

Sometimes the story is funny

and sometimes it can be scary.

It can also be the most exciting thing in the world!

You probably judged this book by the cover.

That’s ok. Everyone does it, no matter what people say.

THIS book is now YOUR BOOK.

Feel free to mark the pages in any way you want

– it wants to be used!

Perhaps you could keep your place in the book by folding over a corner.

Maybe you scribble on page 188… Who knows?

These things don’t harm books too much.

But if you don’t read this book,

or you forget about it,

or never USE it,

then you will NEVER know what it can become.

And, by the way, if you were to completely destroy this book, you may accidentally be giving a whole bunch of power to the wrong people…

Or person.

Enjoy the journey ahead.

The People You Will Meet



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And Many More whom I will leave to your imagination!

Mr Sheckleton

Stinky Simon

Marshmallow

King Kingston Crawley

Glitterbug Loppy

Armadillo Girl

Jose and Marco, the Burrito Bros.

Darwin and Spitz

PRELUDE

Flick is falling!

There were so many other things that she would rather be doing than falling down this long black hole.

What is at the bottom?

Is there a bottom…?!

This was a fully inconvenient thing to be happening at school break time, she thought.

Then something began to emerge from the darkness below.

‘Is that… No, it can’t be…!’

Chapter 1 - Meet Flick

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRING!

The morning break bell rang out loud, reverberating around the corridors. It was 10:45 am at Shinglepits High School and all the classroom doors smashed open. The kids of the school flooded out into the warren-like passageways that linked the Science department to the Maths department, Music to Art, and the Hall to the playground, bashing into each other to reach their friends and be the first at the vending machines! The goal was to grab the most-loved Genie Juice, a chemically unbalanced blue drink that was the

ZINGIEST BLUE JUICE IN THE WORLD!

according to the TV advert, anyway.

Genie Juice was always the first product to sell out at morning break. The ingredients of Genie Juice were very simple:

Blueberries

+

Mega-Caffeine

+

A Secret Ingredient

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The kids flowed up and down the

stairs like a shoal of salmon flapping and

slipping upstream in the late summer sun.

As usual, everyone avoided Stinky

Simon and his bag of blue cheese. Cheese

had been Simon’s break-time snack for as long as everyone can remember. He said that cheese made him smart, and he loved everything about his ‘mouldy treat’.

Simon once watched a documentary called the

GREATEST CHEESES

OF ALL TIME

which said the blue veins in blue cheese were where made with ‘real blue lightening from the middle of the deep blue sea’.

Simon’s break time treat would make him FART relentlessly. And when he did, he would lift a leg and shout

LIGHTNING POWER!

at the people walking by, including the teachers! Nobody understood exactly why his cheesy snacks would make him smarter though…

In amongst the rowdy rabble of

goths,

geeks,

and  sport stars of the future,

was Flick.

Flick had her books clutched to her chest and bumped through the corridors like a dodgem car. There were so many people in the school it was nearly impossible not to get smashed to pieces on any given journey.

Flick was also a little clumsy, unfortunately. She often dropped things, broke pens, tripped over, got tangled in her clothes… you name it, it probably happened to Flick. But it didn’t hold her back. It was just one of those things.

Passing the science nerds who congregated in the corner, chatting about atoms and Quarks, Flick noticed her right shoelace had come undone so crouched down by the science kids in the corner to tie it.

Today Flick wore white Converse trainers - High Tops that went way up her ankles.

(By the way, Flick loved knowing that the Converse logo was actually on the inside side of the shoe, not on the outside like every other shoe – ‘Converse’ means ‘opposite’, Flick tells people!)

Bending down to sort the dangling laces, Flick stuck her bum right out. Her bottom bumped into a small science girl walking by who toppled over into a bigger science boy who tumbled, arms outstretched to break his fall.

Unfortunately, as he fell his thumb hooked onto the trousers of another passer-by, yanking the unsuspecting victim’s jean shorts right down to his ankles. He wore yellow and green polka-dot pants.

Oh, how the kids laughed!

Flick was completely oblivious to the ‘accident’. She finished tying her lace, pushed up her rectangular spectacles from the tip of her nose so they touched her thick ginger fringe and continued on her way to the library.

Flick was 13 years old and proudly wears the badge of ‘geekery’. She loves bits of all classes in school –

Maths

Science

Art

and even

sports.

She was good at a lot of things (though sometimes her clumsiness unknowingly holds her back). Her MOST favourite thing in the world was

‘The Unexplained’.

Anything mysterious or baffling, she LOVED! Flick regularly listened to podcasts on ‘Conspiracy Theories’ and avidly read books on ‘Cryptozoology’ - the study of unexplained beasts like BIGFOOT or NESSIE, the Loch Ness Monster.

She also liked to solve puzzles.