School of Fear: Class is not Dismissed blog

Lucie Pascarosa                             705                             SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!

             After reading the "School of Fear," I decided that is was worthy enough to buy the second one on my Kindle. Needless to say I finished it in three days. The second book is about the foursome coming back to school of fear, saying they have conquered their fears. For example, Garrison is a surfer, Madison likes spiders, Lulu goes on elevators, and Theo has stopped checking to see if his family is dead every five minutes. There is just one problem: They are lying. Exactly what you expected from them isn't it? As much as they claim they are cured, you will see why they desperately need another year at school of fear.

             At the beginning of the book you see all of the students happy and cured. But when you see them go back to the school, you see they are all FAKE! Maddie still wears her veil to sleep and fumigates her room, Lulu waits for hours for someone to go on the elevator with her, and Theo stalks his family. Yes you heard me, stalks them. He follows them so he can keep track of where they are so that he can ensure that they are alive. Don't worry, I didn't forget about macho Garrison. You can't rally feign being a surfer, can you? Well, apparently you can. Garrison would go to the beach with his board and wetsuit, and goes into the bathroom and gets his hair wet, so people think he was at the beach.  How do we know this? Mrs. Wellington the teacher, stalks them a bit like Theo and takes videos of their "progress.'' Personally, I thought it was a good idea to look at what they were doing because otherwise, the honor system is out the door. Unfortunately, this is not the only obstacle. There is a new student named Hyacinth, and she is the most obnoxious ten year old you could ever imagine. She blames all of her problems on her ferret, and her phobia is being alone, so she is annoyingly clingy. I would HATE a person like that. Take this for example " OMG! We are going to be besties! We are going to have sleep overs and OMG, I forgot to bring a camera to document our memories! Don't you just love making memories!" That wasn't directly out of the book, but it could have been.

            In the middle of the book, we find out the real problem.  The first thing is that Abernathy is living in the forest near the school ( Abernathy is the stepson of Mrs. Wellington, an the only student she failed to teach, as his phobia was stepmothers). The biggest problem is that someone had been stealing Mrs. Wellington’s valuables, which we find out later to be their neighbors who are dog crazy, and are mad because Mrs. Wellington doesn't have a seat belt or  doggy braces for Mac, her bulldog. When reading this section of the book I nearly screamed and or punched my Kindle. Who would do such a horrible thing? But it gets worse! Schmitty, Mrs. Wellington, and the five kids go to this pageant to look for the thieves. When they find it's their neighbors, they go home as fast as they can. But they are stopped by the sheriff and are informed that the student with a ferret leaked the secret about the school of fear to a reporter, which is always kept secret from the public. For those of you idiots who haven't figured out who spilled the beans it was Hyacinth, who blamed it on her rodent. I think she deserved to cry in her room alone. She didn't care about other people and needs time to get her act together. Hyacinth does do something that change everything at the end of the book, but I have already spoiled this book for you so I'm just going to make you read the whole thing so you can get to the end. Sorry.

          This is why I thought "School of Fear: Class is not Dismissed!" was a very interesting book, and I think it teaches us you should treat people the way you want to be treated, and you can't always get what you want.