This new highly-illustrated series is guaranteed to make you laugh so hard milk will come out of your nose! Strangeville School is the wackiest, most dangerous school you will ever attend...and you'll desperately want to come back for more! Harvey Hill just wants other kids to think he’s normal. So he’s happy to start fresh as the newest kid at Strangeville Middle School. Except Strangeville is anything but normal. Something sinister swims in the drinking fountain, the cafeteria could swallow you whole, and a giant rat named Cuddles is on the loose. And don't even get the vice principal started on the third-floor supply closet. In fact, don't even think about it. What supply closet? At least Harvey has his guide and sort-of new friend Stella Cho to show him the ropes. School newspaper reporter, first chair flugelhorn, and hiding a secret of her own, Stella shows Harvey that maybe "normal" is overrated. But when Stella goes missing while trying to solve the secret of the supply closet (oh that supply closet!), Harvey must embrace what makes him unique to save his new friend and his new school.   Sideways Stories from Wayside School meets Welcome to Nightvale in this wacky new series! “ Strangeville School  is totally hysterical! It’s like a lopsided, upside down, triple somersault  Sideways Stories from Wayside School  for a whole new generation. Darcy Miller is my kind of writer: Funny!” -- Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of  Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library  and  I Funny   "Strangeville School is Totally Normal  is the funniest kids’ book I’ve read in years. It’s also the weirdest, in the best possible way: if demonically possessed supply closets, mysteriously oversized rats, and even more mysterious main characters are your kind of thing, you’ll love this story.” – Geoff Rodkey,  New York Times  bestselling author of The Tapper Twins Darcy Miller is the author of Roll , Margot and Mateo Save the World , and Strangeville School Is Totally Normal. She lives in Wisconsin with her two children, her librarian husband, and way too many pets. You can visit Darcy online at www.darcyamiller.com. Brett Helquist is the illustrator of many books including The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, Chasing Vermeer , by Blue Balleitt and most recently Guitar Genius , by Kim Tomsic and Cezanne’s Parrot, by Amy Guglielmo. He is also the author of Bedtime for Bear , Grumpy Goat , and Roger the Jolly Pirate . He grew up in Utah and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two kids. When he’s not working he’s usually trying to play his guitar. You can visit Brett online at www.bretthelquist.com 1  Morning Announcements Good morning, Strangeville School! This is Vice Principal Capozzi, filling in for Principal Gupta, who you’ll be happy to hear is recovering nicely from her unfortunate piranha incident yesterday. I’ve been assured by Janitor Gary that all carnivorous fish have now been removed from the first-floor drinking fountains. So if you happen to see Janitor Gary today, make sure to give him a big Strangeville thank-you! In related news, Nurse Porter informs me that we are temporarily out of Band-Aids. In the event of a paper cut, Nurse Porter recommends “having known better than to handle paper in the first place” and “honestly, you probably deserved it.” Well said, Nurse Porter. Strangeville is lucky to have you! Moving right along to the lunch menu, it looks as though today’s choices will include steamed Maine lobster on watercress; unseasoned, lukewarm gruel; and, oh! A special new menu item! Chef Louis is describing it as “complete and total darkness, but in meat loaf form.” Mmm, mmm. Sounds delicious, Chef Louis! On a more serious note, I’d like to remind all students to try to avoid angering the third-floor supply closet today. In fact, why not avoid the third floor altogether? I know I will! And, finally, I’d like to welcome new student Harvey Hill to Strangeville School this morning. Harvey hails from back east and will be joining Mr. Sandringham’s fifth-grade homeroom. I’m told he has “brownish hair,” “average elbows,” and “definitely a nose of some sort.” So if you see anyone matching that description today, wish them hello! This is Vice Principal Capozzi, signing off. Have a fantastic day, Strangeville School! But not too fantastic. You know the supply closet doesn’t like that. . . .   2  Harvey In Mr. Sandringham’s fifth-grade homeroom, twenty-two sets of eyes turned in Harvey Hill’s direction. Well, twenty-three sets of eyes, if you counted the classroom lizard, Mr. Pickles. Harvey, who had not yet noticed Mr. Pickles and was, therefore, unaware of the lizard’s existence, did not. It was fine. Mr. Pickles was used to being overlooked. One day, the lizard often thought, he would have his revenge. Mr. Pickles had plans. Oh, yes, Mr. Pickles had big plans. Terrifying plans. Plans that would make you shoot up in bed in the middle of the nigh