The New Kid at School by Kate McMullan Read Free Book Online

the Future: Finding his lost lady love
Brother Dave
    Brother Dave is the DSA librarian. He belongs to the Little Brothers of the Peanut Brittle, an order known for doing impossibly good deeds and cooking up endless batches of sweet peanut candy. How exactly did Brother Dave wind up at Dragon Slayers’ Academy? After a batch of his extra-crunchy peanut brittle left three children from Toenail toothless, Brother Dave vowed to do a truly impossible good deed. Thus did he offer to be librarian at a school world-famous for considering reading and writing a complete and utter waste of time. Brother Dave hopes to change all that.

    Known to the Boys as: Bro Dave
    Dream: Boys reading in the libary
    Reality: Boys sleeping in the library
    Best-Kept Secret: Uses Cliff’s Notes
    Plans for the Future: Copying out all the lyrics to “Found a Peanut” for the boys
Professor Prissius Pluck
    Professor Pluck graduated from Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers Prep, and went on to become a professor of Science at Dragon Slayers’ Academy. His specialty is the Multiple Choice Pop Test. The boys who take Dragon Science, Professor Pluck’s popular class,
    a. are amazed at the great quantities of saliva Professor P. can project
    b. try never to sit in the front row
    c. beg Headmaster Mordred to transfer them to another class
    d. all of the above

    Known to the Boys as: Old Spit Face
    Dream: Proper pronunciation of p’s
    Reality: Let us spray
    Best-Kept Secret: Has never seen a pippi-hippo pappa-peepus up close
    Plans for the Future: Is working on a cure for chapped lips
    Staff
Frypot
    How Frypot came to be the cook at DSA is something of a mystery. Rumors abound. Some say that when Mordred bought the broken-down castle for his school, Frypot was already in the kitchen and he simply stayed on. Others say that Lady Lobelia hired Frypot because he was so speedy at washing d Still others say Frypot knows many a dark secret that keeps him from losing his job. But no one ever, ever says that Frypot was hired because of his excellent cooking skills.

    Known to the Boys as: Who needs a nickname with a real name like Frypot?
    Dream: Cleaner kitchen
    Reality: Kitchen cleaner
    Best-Kept Secret: Takes long bubble baths in the moat
    Plans for the Future: Has signed up for a beginning cooking class
Yorick
    Yorick is Chief Scout at DSA. His knack for masquerading as almost anything comes from his years with the Merry Minstrels and Dancing Damsels Players, where he won an award for his role as the Glass Slipper in “Cinderella”. However, when he was passed over for the part of Mama Bear in “Goldilocks”, Yorick decided to seek a new way of life. He snuck off in the night and, by dawn, still dressed in the bear suit, found himself walking up Huntsmans Path. Mordred spied him from a castle window, recognized his talent for disguise, and hired him as Chief Scout on the spot.

    Known to the Boys as: Who’s that?
    Dream: Master of Disguise
    Reality: Mordred’s Errand Boy
    Best-Kept Secret: Likes dressing up as King Ken
    Plans for the Future: To lose the bunny suit
    Students
Wiglaf of Pinwick
    Wiglaf, our newest lad, hails from a hovel outside the village of Pinwick, which makes Toenail look like a thriving metropolis. Being one of thirteen children, Wiglaf had a taste of dorm life before coming to DSA and he fit right in. He started the year off with a bang when he took a stab at Coach Plungett’s brown pageboy wig. Way to go, Wiggie! We hope to see more of this lad’s wacky humor in the years to come.

    Dream: Bold Dragon-Slaying Hero
    Reality: Still hangs on to a “security” rag
    Extracurricular Activities: Animal-Lovers Club, President; No More Eel for Lunch Club, President; Frypot’s Scrub Team, Brush Wielder; Pig Appreciation Club, Founder
    Favorite Subject: Library
    Oft-Heard Saying: “Ello-hay, Aisy-day!”
    Plans for the Future: To go for the gold!
Angus du Pangus
    The nephew of Mordred and Lady Lobelia, Angus walks the line between