title: Young Scrooge: A Very Scary Christmas Story
author:  R. L. Stine 
description: Gr 47Rick Scroogeman is a pathological bully, enjoying the harmful pranks he pulls on one and all. He has no clue that the "fun" he inflicts makes him the most hated kid in middle school. That is, until he is forced to see the error of his ways by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. At first, Rick makes light of being the target of bullies in the 1800s and the hardship of a modern family, but when he witnesses his schoolmates' disdain, he finally starts to get the message. However, Future Ghost hammers it home by dropping Rick off at Dead Middle School, where the zombie students try to pull him into his own grave. Scared straight, Rick does some good deeds and claims to be happier now that he's a good guyalthough he still pulls a mean prank to end the book. Mild horror situations like zombie students and walking snowmen do not redeem the self-centered first-person narrative of this modern-day Christmas Carol. VERDICT Stine certainly has fans, but this labored effort is not his best and, honestly, the first 50 pages, in which Rick brags about his mean antics, are more horrifying than the ghosts and zombies. Not recommended.Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
zlib_text: OFF THE NAUGHTY LIST
  A SCROOGE MCFUCK SHORT STORY
  
  MAY SAGE
  
  CONTENTS
  1. Bennet
  2. Maya
  3. Bennet
  4. Piper
  5. Bennet
  6. Piper
  7. Piper
  
  B
  BENNET
  ennet couldn’t remember ever moving this fast. Not back when he was a kid and they gave
  out free cake on birthdays. Not when his hot cheerleader girlfriend had screamed his
  name, urging him to get the last touchdown in high school. Not at any point in his adulthood.
  He hadn’t even run this fast when he’d followed the two loves of his life to the fucking North Pole
  on Christmas five years ago.
  He hailed a cab rather than waste time calling for his driver. The gods must have been on his side,
  because somehow, the first cab he saw stopped. He hopped in, and gave the man at the front the
  address where he had to get. Right now.
  The cabbie, a forty-something man with too much facial hair, lifted a brow. “You’re going to
  school in the middle of the day?”
  Great. Now the guy thought he was a pervert.
  “My daughter’s in trouble.” The explanation came out