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THE BIG BLUEBERRY BARF-OFF!
June 2005 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060785861

Sherman Oaks is constantly showing off his amazing digital watch that has 42 different functions. Bernie Bridges drools over it – he has to have it. Bernie gets his friends involved in a scheme to get the watch, which leads to a hilarious pie-eating contest that will gross you out for sure!

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THE GREAT SMELLING BEE
June 2005 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060785896

Bernie brings his pet bulldog – named Gassy (Can you guess why?) – to school. But the school has a strict No Pets rule. That doesn’t bother Bernie. He simply enrolls Gassy as a transfer student. What do you think? Can a farting dog make it as a student at the Rotten School?

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THE BIG BLUEBERRY BARF-OFF! & THE GREAT SMELLING BEE CD UNABRIDGED
June 2005 | Unabridged Audio CD | $17.95 | ISBN: 0060788836

Now you can listen to the uproarious adventures of the Rotten School students: Bernie Bridges, Sherman Oaks, Chipmunk, Jennifer Ecch and all the gang. And you won’t believe Mrs. Heinie, or Coach Bunz, or Headmaster I. Will Upchuck, and the rest of the students and faculty. No school is like the Rotten School, where anything can happen and everything does. Listen to Bernie and his pals outwit Sherman Oaks and his followers. You won’t be able to stop laughing.

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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VERY SLIMY
September 2005 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060785926

Bernie Bridges wants to go to the Rotten School dance with April-May June, the prettiest, snobbiest girl in school. But April-May says she doesn’t go out with a troublemakers! So Bernie has to do something he has never done before. Bernie has to be…GOOD!

No problem—Bernie does his homework, reads poetry instead of playing pool, and stays out of the big food fight. But then comes his biggest challenge—the super slimy slug race. Bernie knows Sluggo, his champion slug, can win. Does Bernie have what it takes to stay out of the race?

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LOSE, TEAM, LOSE!
December 2005 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788089

Bernie’s in major trouble! Jennifer Ecch, the biggest, toughest girl in Rotten School, is in love with him. She’ll do anything to get him to be her boyfriend. That’s why she joins the totally rotten all-boys football team. And with Jennifer on the team, they can’t lose. But that’s definitely bad. ’Cause if they win, they’ll have to play against the National Champions—the killer Flesh-Eaters.

Now Bernie’s in double trouble! Someone has got to stop the Attack of the Ecch!

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SHAKE, RATTLE, AND HURL!
February 2006 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788119

It’s the school talent show, and this year Bernie Bridges wants to beat Nyce House. He wants a kid from his dorm, Rotten House, to win. The problem is, no one in Rotten House has any talent. At least that’s what Bernie thinks, until he walks past a closet and hears the most amazing guitar playing—it’s Chipmunk, the shyest kid in Rotten House. Bernie signs Chipmunk right up for the show…and then discovers that playing in front of an audience makes Chipmunk puke—a lot. His surefire winner can only perform in a closet.

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THE HEINIE PRIZE
April 2006 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788143

And the Heinie Prize Goes to . . .

Belzer is a loser with a capital L. He does everything for Bernie Bridges—washes his dirty underwear, finishes his homework, even walks his smelly dog! Bernie has it good! But now Belzer’s parents are taking him out of Rotten School. Bernie has to make Belzer stay! (How else will he get his breakfast in bed every morning?) Bernie has only one choice—he has to help Belzer win the Heinie Prize for Most Outstanding Student. But can Bernie really make Belzer worthy of a Heinie?

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DUDES, THE SCHOOL IS HAUNTED!
June 2006 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788178

Joe Sweety is the worst kind of bully -- big, mean, and always ready to use his fists. Chipmunk is the shiest, clumsiest kid at Rotten School. When Chipmunk is paired with Joe on the class trip, things get ugly -- and fast! Chipmunk spills his apple juice on Joe, he barfs on Joe, and he pulls down Joe's pants. All accidents, of course. But does Joe care? No way! He is out to get Chipmunk!

Bernie Bridges can't stand to see Chipmunk, one of his Rotten House guys, bullied by big, mean Sweety. So it's payback time -- and Bernie has a spook-tacular plan. It turns out that Sweety is scared of ghosts. Petrified! Bernie decides it's time for the Haunting of Joe -- with spooky messages on the computer, green protoplasm in his room, and a body-wrap in an eerie cocoon. Will Bernie's payback work? Will it scare Joe into niceness?

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THE TEACHER FROM HECK
August 2006 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788216

Bernie Bridges and his friends have finally done it! Their really rotten behavior has made their teacher, Mrs. Heinie, quit. For the rest of the year, they will have a substitute teacher. Everyone in Bernie’s class thinks that this means it’s party time!

But Mr. Skruloose is no ordinary sub. Oh, no—this guy has taught in the toughest military schools. And he has rules:
  • Eyes straight ahead. No glancing from side to side.
  • No rapid breathing. Breathe through BOTH nostrils.
  • No bathroom passes—ever!
  • Both feet on the floor at all times, shoes at a 45-degree angle.
  • Posture counts for 25 percent of your grade.
And that’s just the beginning…

So it’s time for Bernie to come up with his most important plan yet: How to get rid of the teacher from heck!

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PARTY POOPERS
November 2006 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788240

Bernie has it all figured out. April-May June will ask him to the annual girl-invite-boy school dance. They’ll dance the night away, and April-May June will totally fall for him. There’s only one problem: Reality. April-May June doesn’t know she is destined to go with him and Jennifer Ecch swoops in and asks Bernie first. Yuck! How can Bernie shake the unshakable Ecch?

Bernie has a plan. He’ll convince Jennifer that that he is lower than toe fungus and not worthy enough to go to the dance with her. But love is blind. No matter what ridiculous thing he does, Jennifer remains devoted to him.

Bernie has no choice. The time has come to hold a long-distance snot-blowing contest right in front of Jennifer. That should be gross enough to get Jennifer out of his life—shouldn’t it?

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THE ROTTENEST ANGEL
January 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788275

Rotten School has a new student. His name is Angel Goodeboy, and Bernie Bridges had better watch out, because Angel Goodeboy really is Good with a capital G!

The girls love Angel. The teachers love him. The Rotten House guys love him. The Nyce House guys love him. Even Bernie’s dog, Gassy, loves him. Angel is MR. POPULAR.

Bernie is horrified. His role as the go-to guy just got up and went—with Angel. And to make matters worse, Mrs. Heinie is making Bernie share his room with Angel! She wants Angel’s goodness to rub off on Bernie.

Bernie needs a plan to de-throne Angel and get him out of his life and out of his room—fast!

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PUNK'D AND SKUNKED
March 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0060788305

Bernie Bridges and his Rotten House pals win a trip to the snooty prep school Preppy Prep Prep. They get to stay there for a whole week to compete in the National Student Inventors Competition. Winner gets a cash prize and a chance to appear on MTV-5!

Bernie wants to win. No problem, he thinks. He can punk and skunk these preppy wimps and get them to make his winning invention.

But, whoa-who is being punk’d and skunked here? Bernie quickly learns that even the preppies at Preppy Prep Prep can also play to win!

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BATTLE OF THE DUM DIDDYS
April 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 006078833X

In one week, the Board of Inspectors is coming to Rotten School, and if everything isn’t up to their standards, the school will be shut down. But Bernie Bridges is too busy scheming to worry about that. When he sees Sherman Oaks, his archenemy, charging everyone to play his video game, Bernie comes up with a brilliant plan to make money. He’ll organize a game where everyone acts out the characters from the video in real life. The game wil be played for a fee, of course. But chaos breaks loose--just in time for the inspectors’ big visit!

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GOT CAKE?
June 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0061232696

Bernie Bridges’ wants to be named “Most Popular Rotten Egg” in the yearbook-but first he has to prove just how popular he is. Bernie has a brilliant plan-he’ll tell everyone that it’s his birthday. He is going to throw himself the biggest birthday party in the history of Rotten School just to show how popular he is!

But wait--something is very wrong. Nobody at school cares about Bernie’s birthday. How could that be?

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NIGHT OF THE CREEPY THINGS
August 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0061232726

For Halloween, Bernie Bridges and Sherman Oaks are making scary movies, and the winner of the scariest one will get to star in a genuine horror film! Bernie and Sherman have the same plan—scare each other and capture it on film. But neither of them is prepared for just how scary things will get!

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CALLING ALL BIRDBRAINS
October 2007 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0061232750

Bernie is lucky, lucky, lucky, thanks to his lucky parrot, Lippy. But when Bernie’s buddy Feenman touches Lippy, the good luck turns to bad! But that’s okay. Bernie has a plan. He gives the parrot to his archenemy, Sherman Oaks. It’s perfect—until Bernie finds out that Lippy’s still lucky after all!

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DUMB CLUCKS
January 2008 | Hardcover | $6.99 | ISBN: 0061232785

An all-out war has broken out between the three dorms because of a cartoon character named Stupid Chicken. Bernie and his Rotten House buddies are insane about the show, but the girls and the Nyce House guys declare that Stupid Chicken is stupid. Just as someone sets loose hundreds of chickens across the Great Lawn, parents start to show up at the front gate. Everyone forgot about parents’ day! Can they keep the war going without the parents finding out? Now that’s a plot for Stupid Chicken himself!

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ROTTEN SCHOOL by R.L. Stine books created and produced by Parachute Publishing, L.L.C.
Illustrations by Trip Park
"Rah Rah Rotten School Song"
Written by M. Stine, C. Stine, E. Weinberg
Music by Matt Stine, Cody Stine
Produced by Matt Stine, Giantsound
Copyright © 2007 Parachute Publishing, L.L.C.