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ancestors' music. The boy is unable to see the body of the ancestors when he visits the music room. The boy tells the bad news to the invisible ancestors and they do not respond because they are ghosts but they listen. The bad news is that they were going to break the lighthouse and make a new one but they tried their hardest not to let them break it. Was later adapted as an episode of
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A conniving salesman named Giffen sells a glue that will stick to anything, but stops working after four hours. After getting many innocent townspeople to buy it, he leaves town in his truck before they can track him down for cheating them, then meets a man who has invented a box that can make people
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A boy called Brian has a speech impediment that forces him to say "Without a shirt" each time he finishes a sentence. When he is forced to move to a new house in the center of a cemetery because his dog is repeatedly digging, he eventually finds some bones that may be linked to his speech impediment.
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Greg has a father who grows vegetables that are tremendous because of all the dung he uses to grow them. The worst batches are one that cannot be smelled, but attracts flies, and one that smells so incredibly bad that it gets him in trouble with the neighbours, but also kills flies. At the end, Greg
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A boy is given underpants that, despite their look that would cause him to be teased by the school bully, give him superhuman strength. But when he takes a break during a cross-country race (he is first by a wide margin), those underpants start to shrink, and the bully eventually comes to steal the
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A boy called Bob was forced to live with his aunt because of his parents' deaths, but the only toilet at his aunt's house is in an outhouse. Even worse, that outhouse is haunted by the ghost of a man who was dead after looking after the house when the aunt was on a holiday. Was later adapted as the
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An ice-cream seller has special ice-creams that have effects such as making people happier, shortening peoples' noses, removing pimples, and making people smarter. A smart boy who is always top of the class gets jealous, because he never ever gets any of the ice-cream and also because one of his
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A boy comes to an island to help an old lighthouse keeper. However, every Friday night, music plays, and the boy suspects it has something to do with the lighthouse keeper's ancestors. Stan (the lighthouse keeper) is the son of the captain’s son. He is unable to hear the music because it was his
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rest of his clothes. He ends up going home in the nude, causing him to be grounded, but he eventually enters a mouse race in which the winner gets 50 dollars. The boy wins the mouse race by giving the mouse the pants. Was later adapted as an episode of
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classmates becomes as good as him, so he ruins the ice-cream business by destroying all the ice-cream except the one that makes people smarter. He then proceeds to eat that one, only to find out that it actually makes people less smart.
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A boy who has never been kissed obtains a lipstick that will make nearby girls kiss him. However, it also works on any female, including animals. Was later adapted as an episode of
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After fulfilling the task involving the bones and a shirt, he loses the speech impediment. Was later adapted as an episode of
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fly into the sky. Attempting to try it for himself leads to the biggest mistake of his life.
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is the first in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author
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and his father get into trouble. Adapted as an episode of Wormwood.
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Canberra's Own Outstanding List: Fiction for Younger Readers Award
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although "without a shirt" was changed to "without my pants".
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Index

Unreal (book)

Penguin Australia
Paul Jennings
Short story collection
Penguin Australia
Unbelievable
Paul Jennings
Round The Twist
Round The Twist
Round The Twist
Round The Twist
Round The Twist
"Unreal!"
Unreal!: Eight Surprising Stories
The book on Paul Jennings's site
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Paul Jennings
Unreal! Eight Surprising Stories
Unbelievable! More Surprising Stories
Quirky Tails! More Oddball Stories
Uncanny! Even More Surprising Stories
Unbearable! More Bizarre Stories
The Naked Ghost, Burp! and Blue Jam
Unmentionable! More Amazing Stories
Undone! More Mad Endings
Uncovered! Weird, Weird Stories
Unseen!

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