The Pinkaboos #2: Belladonna and the Nightmare Academy
dub BELLADONNA AND THE NIGHTMARE ACADEMY Jake Gosselin and Laura Gosselin Illustrated by Billy Kelly Andrews McMeel Publishing a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
PROLOGUE Belladonna waved bye to her friends and walked up the path to her little home It wasn’t much just a tiny castle with a mini drawbridge and a moat filled with singing jellyfish Her jellies weren’t singing today just humming happily to themselves Belladonna was used to hurrying home to start reading a new book but she hadn’t been this excited since she got her hands on her first spellbook Tonight she’d be reading the book her teacher Miss Viper had lent her When Frights Become Nightmares Rushing inside Belladonna performed her usual ritual for getting ready to read She closed the door 1
and locked it pushed her comfy chair next to the fireplace and grabbed an assortment of snacks piling them on the table next to her chair Then she flicked the switch that turned on her sign out front which read Do Not Disturb Terror Technician at Work She settled into her chair pulled the book out of her backpack and laid it on her lap The book felt heavy for its size as if its words carried a weight all their own Belladonna opened it as though it might be filled with angry spiders The pages were old dry and yellow Some were torn and several had handwritten notes in the margins completely spider-free thankfully She flipped through it scanning the drawings and some of what was written It was broken into three chapters chapter 1 Why Frights Become Nightmares chapter 2 How Frights Become Nightmares and chapter 3 How to Stop a Nightmare Belladonna liked to do things in the proper order so even though she really wanted to jump straight to chapter 3 she turned to chapter 1 page 1 and began to read 2
