Cereal Readers Logo displaying book, bowl and spoon
Just Shocking!
Amazon

Just Shocking!

Just Series

Author: Andy Griffiths

Illustrator: Terry Denton

Book 7 in the Just series

Pages: 214

Published: 2007

Age: 7+

Just Shocking! is the sixth book in the Just! series. It contains ten shocking short stories. Is this the right book for you?

Take the SHOCKING TEST and find out.

1. Do you wish you could drive around in a monster truck crushing everybody and everything that gets in your way?
2. Do you love watching videos of people having painful accidents?
3. Do you do any - or all - of the following: touch electric fences, play with loaded mousetraps or put buttons up your nose?
4. Do you think stories about exploding pink butterflies are funny?
5. Do you ever laugh so hard that you feel like you're going to throw up all over yourself...and then you actually do?

SCORE: One point for each 'yes' answer. 3-5 You are a shocking, shocking person! You will love this book. 1-2 You are quite shocking! You will love this book. 0 What a shocking score! You will love this book.

Recognition:

Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards for Section 2 Fiction for Younger Readers (2008), Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) for Younger Readers (2008), Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Younger Readers (2008), West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Younger Reader Award (2008)

About the Just Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Just Tricking!(1997)
  2. 2.Just Annoying!(1998)
  3. 3.Just Stupid!(1999)
  4. 4.Just Crazy!(2000)
  5. 5.Just Disgusting!(2002)
  6. 6.Just Wacky!(2004)
  7. 7.Just Shocking!(2007)
  8. 8.Just Macbeth!(2009)
  9. 9.Just Doomed!(2012)

Reading age: 7+ years

humourillustratedfamilyboysteachers' pickrealistic fiction

A wildly popular series of funny, fast-paced short stories told by young Andy, who considers himself the world's greatest, craziest, most annoying, and most stupid practical joker. The series contains many different styles of story, including stories told in the form of lists, choose-your-own adventures, comic strips, playscripts and letters. And all are accompanied by talking page numbers, cartoons and flick pictures in the margins by Terry Denton.