Mascot Madness!
The 'Mascot Madness!' Test.
1. Northwest Southeast Central School have never beaten Northwest West Academy at their annual track and field challenge because: (a) they're better at knitting than they are at sport (b) they are losers (c) Northwest West Academy will stop at nothing to win.
2. Mr Brainfright dresses up in a banana suit and dances around because: (a) he's bored (b) he goes bananas (c) he thinks it will inspire the students of Northwest Southeast Central School and lead them to victory.
3. Northwest West Academy's mascot, a ferocious pit-bull terrier called Chomp, is trained to attack: (a) postmen (b) cats (c) bananas.
4. When Henry McThrottle attempts the triple jump, instead of a hop, step and a jump he does: (a) a burp, a dribble and a sneeze (b) a twirl, a spin and the splits (c) a stumble, a trip and a fall.
5. 'Mascot Madness!' is: (a) a new type of dance (b) when a mascot gets angry (c) a very funny book about running, jumping, throwing, winning, losing, cheating, chasing, biting and really hard squeezing.
ANSWERS: The answers to these questions - and many more - are contained between the covers of 'Mascot Madness!' - a very funny book about running, jumping, throwing, winning, losing, cheating, chasing, biting and really hard squeezing.
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Younger Readers (2010)
About the Schooling Around Series
Books in series order
- 1.Treasure Fever!(2008)
- 2.Pencil of Doom!(2008)
- 3.Mascot Madness!(2009)
- 4.Robot Riot!(2009)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
A set of four novels chronicling the amazing goings on at Northwest Southeast Central School. Imagine a novel-length treatment of one of the short stories from the Just! series and you're getting warm. Imagine a funny, charming and exciting novel set in a most unusual school... well you don't have to imagine it because Schooling Around is already here!
Sure to appeal to both confident and emerging readers of all ages, they are also ideal for both parents and classroom teachers to read aloud.

