Who Wants I Scream?

Andres Miedoso, Victor Rivas

• Publisher: Little Simon
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781534499461
• eBook ISBN: 9781534499485

A haunted ice cream truck is on the loose in this fourteenth chilling adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! Summer in Kersville is like summer in a lot of other places. The sun is bright and hot. School is closed and the pool is open. And kids know to run away as fast as they can when they hear the familiar song of the ice cream truck. Because that means the I Scream Man is here for dessert!With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

CHAPTER ONE ICE-CREAM HEADACHE

Let me tell you what you already know: Kids love ice cream!

Am I right?

I mean, there are so many flavors. You could have chocolate chip, double chocolate swirl, or even triple choco-late fudge.

There’s strawberry cream, blackberry chunk, and blueberry brownie. And don’t forget cinnamon apple pie or peanut butter and jelly ice cream.

And that’s just the first choice you have to make.

Next, you have to pick a cone, and that’s a lot of pressure to put on a kid! Do you like regular, sugar, waffle, honey-dipped, or chocolate with nuts? They even have a bowl made out of a cone.

But then you still have to pick your toppings. Do you want whipped cream, hot fudge, butterscotch, cookie pieces, cherries, marshmallows, or mini peanut butter cups?

It’s enough to make any kid feel a little dizzy!

That’s why I like to keep things simple. I always order the same thing: two scoops of vanilla on a sugar cone. No toppings.

I know, I know. You’re thinking that’s a really normal, boring type of ice-cream cone, but there’s a reason for that.

One time I tried a new kind of ice-cream cone, and things got out of hand… fast!

That’s me, Andres Miedoso. I’m the one covered in an ice-cream tidal wave while slipping off a diving board.

And there’s Desmond Cole, my best friend. He’s the one using a sticky caramel rope to save me from falling.

And no, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That is a giant ice-cream-cone monster chasing us. His name is the I Scream Man.

And let’s just say that he’s very, very hungry!

CHAPTER TWO PLAIN OLD VANILLA

Wait. I don’t want to get ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning.

It was a hot summer in Kersville. Yeah, I know summer is always hot, but it felt like you were standing on the sun.

That’s how hot it was!

All the lakes went dry. Kids got sunburns in the shade. Bike tires were melting on the street, and there was only one place we wanted to be: the Kersville Pool!

I’m telling you—everybody was there.

The pool was so packed that you could hardly find space to swim. And if you wanted to get on a diving board, you had to wait in a long line.

No, thanks.

Desmond and I just wanted to spend as much time as we could cooling off in the water. And that’s exactly what we did.

It was perfect… until we got kicked out for something called “Adult Swim.”

Adult Swim was a time when kids had to leave the sweet coolness of the pool so grown-ups could have a turn. I guess grown-ups can’t swim so good, or maybe they need m...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Chapter One: Ice-Cream Headache
• Chapter Two: Plain Old Vanilla
• Chapter Three: Sugar Cones
• Chapter Four: Rocky Road
• Chapter Five: The I Scream Man
• Chapter Six: Let’s Banana Split!
• Chapter Seven: Chocolate Chip Cookie D’oh!
• Chapter Eight: A Waffle Lot of Danger
• Chapter Nine: It was Mint to Be
• Chapter Ten: The Inside Scoop
• About the Author and Illustrator
• Copyright