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Ben looked at his stool in surprise. It was halfway across the room.

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Ben, however, was floating exactly where he'd been.

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Mog lay sprawled on the floor. "He tried to knock me over!" Ben realized.

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"Mog!" cried Mrs. Hag. "What are you doing?"

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The monster got up off the floor. "I was, um, trying to get my stool back."

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He pointed to the stool he had knocked across the room.

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"That's not your stool," said Mrs. Hag.

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"That's Ben's stool. Now sit down and behave yourself!"

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Mog sat down as Ben got the stool.

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When Ben came back, Mog leaned over the table, scowling at him.

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"Listen, you pathetic excuse for a monster," Mog whispered.

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"Stay away from Winnie, or you'll end up all alone, haunting a ghost town!"

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"Oh, Mog," said Winnie. "He wouldn't be alone in a ghost town.

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Those places are filled with ghosts." She flashed a smile at Ben.

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"Grr," snarled Mog, still glaring at Ben.

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"He's a really nice guy," Winnie whispered to Ben.

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"He's just not showing it today."

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Mrs. Hag clapped her hands. "Let's start cooking!

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Mog, get out the soap and scrub brush so you're ready to clean up when we're done."

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Ben watched Mog get up. Ben had stood up to Mog earlier.

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But he was new at school, and he couldn't afford to make enemies.

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He'd better stay out of Mog's way for now.

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Then he stole another quick look at Winnie, hoping she hadn't read his thoughts again.

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Maybe he'd better stay out of her way too.

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At lunch Gaby told Ben more about the dance that Waldo had mentioned.

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And over the next few days, that's all anyone was talking about at Monster Academy.

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Who was going with whom to the Monster Mash dance?

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Which girl monsters had asked boy monsters?

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Why did the girl mummies always spend the evening giggling and running to the restroom to rewrap their bandages?

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Ben wanted to go to the dance.

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He had already met a bunch of girl monsters at Monster Academy.

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But there was only one he really liked—and she was taken.

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A few days later during homeroom, Mr. Freaky made an announcement.

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"Attention, monsters!" His voice crackled over the loudspeaker.

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"As you know, we've been having some strange problems with our brooms since school started.

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We've found brooms everywhere—the restrooms, the gym, the soccer field.

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Just yesterday one crashed through my office window!"

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"We're not sure who's causing the empty brooms to fly around, but we will find the monster responsible.

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In the meantime, because of the danger, we're canceling all extracurricular activities.

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That includes the Monster Mash dance."

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"What?"

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"That's not fair!"

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Everyone in Ben's homeroom started complaining.

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"Furthermore," continued Mr. Freaky, "all broom-flying classes will be suspended until the broom incidents stop."

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"No broom-flying class?" shrieked a witch sitting next to Winnie. "That stinks!"

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"You're not kidding." Winnie looked like she might cry.

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"My parents promised to get me my own broom as soon as I got my broom-flying license." She sighed.

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"I'll be an ugly old witch before I can fly a broom by myself."

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"You could never be an ugly old witch," thought Ben as he gazed over at Winnie.

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Winnie suddenly looked up, and her green eyes stared right into his.

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Ben looked away quickly.

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The bell rang, and all the students headed off to class.

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As Ben drifted down the hallway, he thought about the sad look on Winnie's face again.

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Poor Winnie. She'd looked so disappointed.

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Suddenly Ben got a brilliant idea.

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"I'll figure out who's crashing the brooms!" he thought.

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"Then Winnie can go back to broom-flying class and get her own broom."

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He was new at Monster Academy, but he could find the mysterious broom-flyer and help Winnie.

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He knew he could.

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Later Ben heard a voice behind him in the cafeteria.

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It was Gaby. He turned to look up at her.

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"Guess what?" she cried, jumping up and down. The entire cafeteria shook.

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"Hey, quit jumping!" complained a goblin at the next table.

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"You spilled my toad juice!"

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"What is it? Tell me!" said Ben.

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Gaby stopped jumping. "Waldo Wizz asked me to go see a movie on Friday night!" she said.

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"That's fantastic!" said Ben.

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"Waldo is so nice," Gaby gushed.

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"He's cute too. Have I told you about how great he is at magic?"

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"Yes." Ben rolled his eyes.

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Gaby had told him about Waldo Wizz's magic skills—along with his bright blue eyes—many, many times.

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Ben was about to remind Gaby of this when another idea came to him.

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Waldo was supposed to be some kind of genius at magic.

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Maybe he could help find the monster who was crashing all the brooms.