One day, Tim wakes up, gets dressed, eats his breakfast and heads out the door for another day of fourth grade. On his way to school, Tim slips and crashes down onto his face on the hard concrete sidewalk! “Yaaaaaaaa!!” Tim yells. Then Tim hears laughing and name calling like “Crybaby” and “Mr. Clumsy” directed at him. Tim sighs. He is used to getting bullied. But when Tim tries to get off the ground, he really isn’t expecting the bullies to attack him so he can’t dodge the attack and falls to the ground. When Tim gets up he is ready and dodges a tackle, and then he runs to school.

When Tim gets to school he is out of breath and has to stop for a breather before heading into class. When Tim gets to class, it’s time for a math assessment, but when he sits down the only thing he can think about are the bullies. Then Tim remembers that Halloween is in two days. He decides that he will set many traps to scare the bullies on Halloween.

Later that day during lunch when Tim is walking to a table, he overhears the bullies who had bullied him earlier that day, planning a trick-or-treating route. He stops dead in his tracks to listen. “Let’s go by that old Granny’s house, she always has the best candy.” said one of the bullies.

That “old granny” is Tim’s grandma! “Maybe I can ask Grandma if I can set a trap in her house for the bullies!” Tim thinks suddenly.

But Tim doesn’t think about that trap much  because he is sure The bullies are going to talk about their trick-or-treating route more, and sure enough, “Let’s go by the grocery store, they always have candied apples.”

Tim spies a pencil and decides to write down the bullies’ trick-or-treating route on a paper napkin. The bullies go on and on and Tim has to write very fast to keep up. Lunch is almost done when the bullies finish planning their trick-or-treating route. Tim hides the paper napkin carefully in his pocket and gobbles his lunch as fast as he can. He decides it’s best to put it all out of his mind until later.

When Tim gets home, he thinks everything over for a while and he decides the best places for pranks are his grandmother’s house, his dad’s office, and the super tall house that has a really low tree in front of it. He might still think about using some other pranks as well.

Tim hears the front door open. “I got the fabric you wanted for your costume! Come down from your room and help me make it!” his mom calls up the stairs. Tim spends the rest of the afternoon working on his bear costume with big claws and a homemade mask. Then it’s time for dinner, and after a delicious meal, he goes to bed and falls asleep.

A truck honks and Tim jolts awake. He looks at the clock. He should be walking to school by now! He jumps out of bed, gets dressed, runs to the kitchen, pours himself cereal, and devours it. He packs his backpack and runs out the door. Then he remembers it’s Saturday! Tim’s tummy rumbles, and he remembers how little breakfast he had. He heads back inside and asks his parents to help him prepare a proper Saturday morning breakfast, because he’s not allowed to cook on the stove. After Tim eats breakfast, he heads down to his grandparents’ house to ask his grandma if he can set up a prank at her house. On his way, he brainstorms possible pranks, not just for his grandma’s house, but others pranks as well.

Tim passes a poster for his school’s Halloween neighborhood event where people would decorate trick-or-treating bags. Then he spots a group of bullies that he recognizes from the other day, and they’re talking about going to the neighborhood event.

“Hold on,” Tim thinks. “What if I do something to the bullies’ trick-or-treating bags?” He decides to plan the details later. Then Tim listens to the bullies a little bit more to make sure he doesn’t miss any important information. After that, he keeps on walking  to his grandparents’ house

When he gets there, he knocks on the door and his grandma answers. She lets him in and then Tim tells her about his plan. When he finishes his story and plan, his grandma yells, “Why those dirty stinking dung balls! They deserve to be sawerely funished! I mean, severely punished!” She goes ranting on and on, and when she finally calms down, she even gives Tim, who had never expected a reaction like that, some tips.

Two hours later, Tim and his grandmother had gotten all the materials they needed for the prank, assembled it, and Tim was now teaching his grandmother what the bullies looked like so she wouldn’t set the trap off on anyone else. Once Tim finishes, his grandmother prepares a delicious lunch.

When Tim gets back home, he gets out a piece of paper and a pencil and starts brainstorming other ideas for pranks. An hour and a half later, Tim has finished his brainstorm and is now circling all the ideas for pranks that he is going to do.

40 minutes later, Tim has circled and revised all his ideas for pranks that he is going to do, and is now underlining all the things that he is going to start working on today, and highlighting all of the things he has already set up.

Five minutes later, Tim has finished his list of pranks, stored the list in his wardrobe so nobody would find it, and is now reading a book.

“Tim!” Tim’s mom calls. “It’s time for dinner!”

“Wow, it’s already time for dinner!” thinks Tim. “I can’t believe I read for so long!” When he gets to the dinner table his parents are already sitting down.

After eating for a while, Tim asks his dad if he could use his office for a prank on the bullies. Tim’s dad agrees after Tim tells him what the bullies did.

When Tim climbs into bed, he can’t stop thinking about all the pranks he plans to do.

“Ring ring ring!” Tim wakes up and looks at the clock. It’s seven in the morning.

“Stupid alarm clock,” Tim mutters. He is just about to go back to sleep when he remembers what day it is.

Tim leaps out of bed and gets ready to go outside. Once he has eaten breakfast, Tim gets some of his savings, puts on his shoes, and heads out the door to the pet shop nearby.t When he gets there, he sees that the pet shop is open, and is really glad that it didn’t close for Halloween.

“Jingle jingle jingle!” Some bells ring merrily as Tim opens the door and steps in.Tim looks around in amazement. Cats and dogs are playing around in enclosures, fish are swimming around in their tanks, and rabbits are hopping around yet another enclosure.

“Wow,” Tim breathes.

“Wow,” squawks a nearby parrot.

“Can I help you?” asks a man as he chases after a rabbit that had jumped the fence of its enclosure.

“Yes,” says Tim. “Could I please have 40 spiders?”

“Here you go,” says the man, reaching behind his desk and pulling out four bags of spiders.

“I’m glad he gave me the spiders in four bags,” thinks Tim, as he hands the man the money for the spiders. After that, he thanks the man and heads out the door.

When Tim gets home, he puts some moldy pumpkins that his family had bought too early, in some plastic bags to prepare for one of his pranks. Then he puts the bags of spiders in another plastic bag, just in case they get out of their first bag, and goes up to his room to put them under his bed.

After lunch, Tim goes to his school for the Halloween event so he can tinker with the bullies’ trick-or-treating bags after the event. When Tim gets there, there’s a small line to get in, and as he gets into line he spies the bullies. One of them looks around and Tim dodges behind someone in the line just in case.

When Tim gets in the school, he grabs a medium bag from the front desk. Then he goes to the packed cafeteria, where he can barely find a seat.

Tim carelessly decorates his bag because he already has a bag that he is going to use, which results in Tim’s bag not being able to stand up because he put too much glue on it.

When Tim finally sees the bullies coming back from the table everybody is supposed to put their bags on, he gets up and goes over to the table. Tim puts his bag down on the table like everyone else, but then he sneaks all the bullies’ bags into the hallway. He takes off his backpack and uses the materials that he had packed to tinker with the bullies’ bags and then makes sure that the bullies don’t find out that he tinkered with the bags. After that Tim goes to play one of the games that are set up on a few of the tables. When it’s time for everybody to go home, he grabs his bag, thinks about throwing it away, and then decides it would be rude to throw it away in front of everybody, so when he gets home he throws it away in his home’s trash.

After an early dinner, Tim puts on his bear costume, gets his big trick-or-treating bag, and heads out the door.

The first place Tim goes to is Palm Street, where the bullies are going to meet. He is going to follow the bullies so he can do each of the pranks at the right time. Soon as Tim sees the bullies, he ducks behind a staircase so he won’t be seen. He plans to follow the bullies and get candy from the houses where they get candy, so he can still get candy while he’s following them.

After four or five houses, the bullies get to Tim’s grandma’s house. Tim looks at the window and sees his grandmother peeking out of it. He watches as his grandmother hurries away and grabs something which Tim knows is the creation he and his grandmother had made. Then the bullies ring the doorbell and shout, “Trick or treat!” Suddenly the bullies hear spooky noises coming out of the house, the door opens, and the form of a ghost  launches out at them! The bullies scream at the top of their lungs, then sprint away, and only slow down when they’re 3 blocks away.

“Trick is right!” Tim laughs. Now that the “ghost” is visible everybody can see it was pushed out by a spring.

Tim walks up to his grandma‘s house. He thinks that the bullies might come back because they missed so many trick-or-treating houses, but even if they don’t come back he has an idea of where they would go next and he knows he doesn’t have to hurry.

When Tim is visiting the last trick-or-treating house on the block, he spies the bullies walking up the next block. After getting his candy, he hurries down towards the bullies, careful to keep a low profile. When he gets close to the bullies, he jumps behind a hedge and edges toward them. On the way, he picks up a thin stick, and when he gets to the bullies he slowly extends the stick and pokes one of them.

“Did one of you poke me?” The bully Tim had prodded asks aggressively, as he turns to his friends.

“No,” they all answer fearfully. They all huddle a little closer together.

Tim gives a fake cackle and pokes another of the bullies. The bully screams and runs away as fast as he can, followed closely by his companions. This time they only stop when they’re five blocks away and have turned a few corners.

When Tim stops being so pleased with himself, he realizes that for the rest of his pranks to work, he has to be close to the boys. Tim pulls out his notes on where the boys are going to go and he looks and looks but he can’t find anywhere close to where the bullies ran. He thinks desperately, and finally comes up with something. The bullies are so greedy that they are likely to go to the closest place with the best candy, and he remembers that his local grocery store gives out candied apples on Halloween which are pretty hard to beat.

When Tim gets there he is out of breath and has a stitch in his side. He walks up to the grocer who is standing at the entrance to his store with the candied apples. He puts one in his trick-or-treating bag, and when he looks around, he sees a group of people walking around the corner in his direction. The bullies! Tim looks around frantically but he can’t see any hiding places. It takes him a second to realize that he could just act normal because they haven’t seen him at all during their trick-or-treating session. He walks away from the bullies and tries not to look at them so they don’t get suspicious. Tim sits down on a bench nearby, then takes out one of his candies to eat.

Tim watches the bullies walk up to the grocer and try to take two apples each. The grocer tells the bullies to put down the apples and they put them back like good little boys. But little does the grocer know that when he turns around, the bullies take back their second apples.

As the bullies walk away, Tim notices that all of their bags are sagging and then, simultaneously, all of the bottoms of the bags rip a little bit, and a little piece of candy from each of the bags falls out. Tim rushes to get the candies before anybody else sees them. As Tim follows the bullies, he picks up the candies slowly dropping from their bags, and also continues to poke them with a stick that he had dunked in a puddle for extra effect. They shriek every time he taps them, and are on the verge of tears. They start walking faster and faster, and Tim has to jog to keep up, which is hard because he still has to stay out of sight.

As the group of bullies speeds along, Tim, in their wake, realizes what street they are on. It’s the street with the angry birds. For some reason, these birds had settled on this one block and anyone passing under the tree had to be careful because if they were too loud or disturbed the birds in some other way, the birds would attack. Tim is struck by a blast of brilliance. He rushes ahead and positions himself behind the tree to wait for the bullies. As they get closer, Tim reaches up and grabs a branch of the tree. The bullies walk under the tree and Tim shakes the branch as hard as he can. At once the birds dive bomb the group of bullies who scream at the top of their lungs and run away as fast as they can, but the birds are still faster and chase them out of sight. Everybody in a one block radius is roaring with laughter along with a couple of adults who have heard so much bad stuff about the bullies. But nobody is laughing harder than Tim.

After Tim finally stops laughing, he realizes that he needs to follow the bullies to engage the last part of his plan. After ten long minutes of searching, (not that Tim didn’t stop at every house to get candy), Tim finally finds them and follows them for another five minutes. When Tim sees his dad‘s office, he runs ahead and goes in. When he gets to the top floor, he removes his backpack and takes out the bags of rotten pumpkins. Tim waits until the bullies are right under the window that he had opened, and then he dumps out some of  the bags on their heads. As the pumpkins sail down, the bullies look up because there’s a weird stench. When they see the pumpkins flying down towards them, they start  to scream. At least half a pumpkin’s worth of rotten pumpkin gets into each of their open mouths. When the second round of pumpkins rains down on them, the pumpkins hit the bullies’ faces with such force that they knock the bullies down. Tim runs down the stairs and out of his dads office, since the bullies can’t see because of the pumpkin rotten pumpkins team takes a stick dips it in a little puddle and taps all of the bullies really quickly no screaming up flailing around. They grab their bags and Tim watches in amazement as the last piece of candy from the each of their bags falls and falls out and then he remembers that he needs to put the spiders eat bags of spiders in the boonies trick-or-treating bags so he quickly runs up and put some bags in each of the bullies trick-or-treating bags…