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Exposition 1: Backround
Zack Jennings, a ghost seer (or a person who can see ghosts), recently blew up a tree in his backyard to rid the place of a ghost. He has now moved to North Chester, Connecticut, where his dad grew up. He is going to start Sixth Grade at Horace P. Pettimore Middle School. Which is haunted. -
Exposition 2: Setting
North Chester, Connecticut Horace P. Pettimore Middle School -
Exposition 3: Characters
Zack: Protagonist and ghost seer
Zipper: Zack's dog, who can see ghosts too
Judy: Zack's stepmom and a ghost seer
Zack's Dad: Zack's Dad, ghost seer
Malik: Zack's new best friend, very intelligent
Azalea: Zack's friend, loves dead people, desendant of Captain Pettimore
Captain Pettimore: voodoo-savvy ghost that huants the school
Ms. DuBois: Zack's (too) nice history teacher
Eddie: Ms. DuBois's brother
Donnellys: Ghosts of students who died in a fire at the school. -
Rising Action 1
Captain Pettimore has just awakened his zombie, McNulty, so he can guard his treasure from others. Captain Pettimore also believes that this year a desendant of his will come to the school. And if he takes over that kid's body, he can live forever, and retrieve his gold! -
Rising Action 2
The janitor finds he entrance of the tunnel to Captian Pettimore's treasure, and decides to go in. He is bitten by the zombie, but gets away, so he becomes one himself. He bumps into the ghost of Seth Donnelly, and becomes his servant. -
Rising Action 3
People start coming to Zack's table at lunch, including Ms. DuBois. Zack, Azalea, and Malik make new friends at the table. Benny, an old friend of Zack's, brings his friends to the table. -
Rising Action 4
Eddie is determined to get Cap. Pettimore's gold. He hires a dowser and a spiritualist to try and find the gold and speak to John Cooper, a (dead) Confederate soldier who knows the location of Pettimore's treasure. He kills the hired people afterwards. -
Rising Action 5
Guardian ghosts start showing up to guard students at the school. Some start asking Zack to help out those they guard. Every person he helps joins their lunch tables. -
Rising Action 5
The new janitor, Eddie, left the front doors open, allowing Zack's dog, Zipper, to fly in looking for Zack. The Vice Principal charges after him. Zipper soon finds Zack and Malik in history, and have to hide him. They go down into the janitor's closet. -
Climax
Zack and Malik find the entance to Pettimore's tunnels to his treasure. They see the stone that says, in code: "A zombie guards my treasure well,
Turn back now or decend into Hell.
Next stand watch like a sailor should,
And your prospects shall be very good." -
Falling Action 1
Malik decodes the stone. He is very interested in the treasure, because he needs money to cure his mom of a disease. "A zombie guards my treasure well,
Turn back now or decend into Hell.
Next stand watch like a sailor should,
And your prospects shall be very good." -
Falling Action 2
Ms. DuBois, who is actually Eddie's "boss" and is hungry for the gold, finds out Zack is a ghost seer, and invites him and his friends along on a test field trip to the graveyard to do rubbings, when she is really trying to get Zack to talk to John Cooper. -
Falling Action 3
They all go on the test field trip, but Malik, who said he was going to bike it, didn't show. Azalea has been posessed by Pettimore, and sneaks into the school to find the gold. When Zack is alone, they force him to speak with John Cooper,but then his other friends come. He sneaks away and finds Malik trying to crack a code to tell him which way to go down the tunnel. Eddie and Ms. DuBois follow them. -
Resolution 1
Zack and Malik find a posessed Azalea with the gold. When Eddie tries to follow them, but his brains end up as zombie food. Ms. DuBois ends up in a deathtrap made by the Donnellys. The Donnellys are allowed to go to heaven. -
Resolution 2
Zack finds a zombie soul jar, and releases the soul, allowing Pettimore's zombie to go back to the dead and letting the janitor regain control over himself. A voodoo witch traps Pettimore's soul, freeing Azalea from Pettimore. -
Resolution 3
The gold is retrieved and is various charities. Malik gets enough money to get medicine for his mom. All is well.
