Paranorman is a book about a school age kid,who can hear and see all dead things: both human and animal. This story is by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. It has 54 pages. I started reading it on Wednesday April 3, 2013. I finished it on April 9, 2013.
As soon as Norman was born, at one in the morning, the hospital had a blackout, there was a strange dog howl for miles around and two guys saw a rainbow, shaped like a question mark, after their shift at a restaurant known as Witchy Weiner.
When he was 13, he found he had the ability to communicate with the dead, and that dead animals had a lot more to say then there human companions. He found that out in a science class while they were dissecting frogs. Items were disappearing from his class, a hamster, Norman introduced the frog to Alvin. Alvin was the classroom bully. Then he introduced the frog to Selma, who was the brain of the class. The frog was trying to tell Norman he wanted a proper grave.
Neil Gorman, the student who mostly got bullied, said to Norman to shut up, because of the fact that he would get bullied immensely for days to a week following. Norman didn't pay him any mind. Alan taunted Norman, saying he was a frog whisperer.
Norman has been both hearing and seeing the dead for as long as he could remember. But he started communicating with them only when his Grandmother died a year ago. He didn't mind being made fun of. He even had the status of an outcast.
The hamster came out from the back of the cage. No one recognized it and it started a huge commotion in the classroom. Norman pulled the.fire alarm and he took advantage of this commotion and put the frog under his arm and he went out of the classroom. He slipped out of the school and went to a swampy area of the school yard and let the frog loose.
Norman and his sister Courtney missed their grandmother very much. She died at a very old age. Normans father was afraid his crazy brother would attend. His father hated the wrong type of attention being drawn to them, although that happened a lot when Norman was around. In the funeral home Norman was the main attraction for the spirits. He was not there, for more than ten minutes and the conversations started.
Norman was getting refreshments to disguise his conversations with the spirits. A man was was trying to get in, however the funeral home director wasn't letting him in on account of his poor dress was not appropriate for the get together. He then saw Norman and wanted to talk to him. The man actually was conversing with the ghosts that Norman was conversing with. Norman ended up screaming though, "All of you leave me alone." Alvin, from his class, was there, and responded to this by saying, "Dude your the only one standing there. Who you talking to the vegetable dip?" Normans father was severely embarrassed.
A morning after the funeral, Grandma Babcock was watching a Zombie movie with Norman. She walked through a solid wall another morning as casually as walking through a door. She's been doing this for approximately eleven months, now and showed no sign of wanting to leave. Norman was asked to take the trash out by his father, during the Zombie movie he was watching. Then Norman was asked why he couldn't be "normal' and put a tent up in the yard or save his allowance money and get something cool? He responded with "I like Zombies." He even brushed his teeth with a Zombie toothbrush and had the toothpaste foam out of his mouth. His room was covered with Zombie posters. Norman told his father, Grandma wanted the heat up. Courtney Norman to prove grandma was talking to him.
Norman never liked to flaunt his connection to the dead. But his sister was really begging him, so he told her she had pictures of the varsity football quarterback shirtless in her underwear drawer. Courtney embarrassedly charged out of the kitchen, her parents couldn't hide their devilish smiles. Normans mother said that at least she was in a better place, to which Norman said, "What in the living room." After that he went back to watching the movie with his Grandma. He had to explain a few parts of the movie to her. After the movie was over Norman wished his Grandma good night and went to bed. He heard his parents from upstairs saying, "I hope he hasn't got what his crazy uncle got." His father got more annoyed when the incident that occurred in the funeral home got out to the rest of the neighborhood. When Norman went up to his room and heard what his parents were saying about him, he was communicating subliminally with a moth.
Norman dreamt about the mysterious man outside the funeral home. He was looking at pictures in Normans room, however Norman couldn't make them out. He awoke and had to collect himself, because of this he missed breakfast and rushed out to school. But he was late, and he hated that. He saw the usual ghosts on the way to school. He almost crashed into a ghost of a military man and his horse. He then saw a dead raccoon and said, "Your new." The raccoon pointed to a corner with no stop sign. Norman said "There used to be a sign, but someone hit it."
Norman found the word "freak" on his locker when he got to school after being knocked down by some Lacrosse players. Math was canceled for pageant rehearsal, which Norman hated. It was in the gym which smelled like sweat and old rubber as usual, but was worse in the morning. The pageant was staged with bad artwork from the colonial era. Norman was of course cast as the first narrator.
Selma, Normans friend was arguing with Mrs. Hershal about her costume. She was the only student, Norman knew, who would stand up and argue teachers. Then something strange happened, even for Normans standards. The script turned into parchment. The rest of his friends momentarily transformed into pilgrims. Then the real world emerged once more.
Norman sensed someone was chasing him. It was his friend Neil. They were both ridiculed by Alvin and his gang. They heard a man whisper "hey," from behind a statue in the town square. Norman and the weird man could both see ghost. On the 300th anniversary, which was coming up the gate between the living world and the dead.world would be open. Norman was one that could stop this. Neil rescued Norman by throwing an apple at the man.
Norman told Neal that he saw dead people. Neal was thrilled. He asked Norman if he could come over and find his dead dogs spirit. Norman saw the dead dog cut in half. Norman played "phantom" fetch with Neil and.his dog all after noon.
When Norman got home, he had a ton of homework and to learn lines for the play. Selma called, because they were lab partners, she wanted to make sure everything was alright. He dreamt of the weird guy showing him some books, and then woke up. The next dream he had of doing the play in his underwear. In the real play he checked to make sure he had all of his costume off. From that moment, things went horrific down ally bad.
Norman, then saw a huge owl, then the gym ceiling crackles and disintegrated. Then Norman was magically teleported to the oldest part of the woods, just outside of town. He was in the middle of a witch hunt. The villagers started chasing him.
After Norman was back, he started screaming, "The dead are coming," and jumped off the stage. A mass panic arose, followed by laughter. After that Norman and his family went home and he was.grounded, just for being who he was.
The whole school was laughing at Norman the next day. If he thought he knew misery before, this was a whole new meaning. He only could get a moment to himself in the bathroom. Someone came in and he went up on the toilet seat to hide. Then his role of toilet paper suddenly began to be undone. Norman wondered what was going on. Then the toilet began to shutter violently. The water started spilling out. The face of the old man, Prendergast, appeared in the bowl. He gave him a book with business for him to finish.
