Got Cake? (Rotten School Series #13)

by R. L. Stine, Trip Park (Illustrator)

Overview

The most popular dude in school?

It has to be Bernie Bridges. Just ask him!

Bernie wants to win the Most Popular Rotten Student of the Year title. But first he has to prove he's the most popular dude on campus. How? Easy. He'll get Jennifer Ecch, the yearbook photographer, to follow him around. All she has to do is snap pictures of him being popular.

When that doesn't work, Bernie decides to throw himself the biggest birthday party ever.

But, look out, Bernie . . . .

Some birthday parties turn out to be surprise parties!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061906640
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/14/2009
Series:	Rotten School Series , #13
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

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 www.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.

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

October 8, 1943

Place of Birth:

Columbus, Ohio

Education:

B.A., Ohio State University, 1965

Website:

http://www.rlstine.com

Read an Excerpt

Rotten School #13: Got Cake?

Chapter One

How to Be Popular

The most popular kid at Rotten School? Well, that's me, of course. Bernie Bridges. I suppose I'm probably the most popular fourth grader in history.

But don't ask me. Ask my hundreds of friends.

I'm a modest guy. I would never brag about how popular I am. Bragging is totally uncool.

How could I be the greatest dude who ever walked across campus if I bragged all the time?

So I'm not bragging. You can ask my twenty best friends.

They'd do anything for me. Anything.

It's easy to be surrounded by friends all the time. Really. You can do it, too. Here are my three rules for being popular:

1. Be generous
2. Be kind
3. Don't bite

I always try to follow all three rules.

That's why it was such a total shock to me when I had to prove how popular I am.

Whoa. Bernie Bridges in a popularity contest?

Could I lose? I don't think so.

I decided to prove it by throwing the biggest birthday party in the history of the known universe. But believe me, dudes and dudettes—it wasn't a piece of cake.

It all started on a sunny afternoon after classes. My friends and I were out on the Great Lawn, stomping on each other's shoes as hard as we could. . . .

Rotten School #13: Got Cake?. Copyright © by R.L. Stine. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.