Rotten School · Book 2

The Great Smelling Bee

by R. L. Stine

Published
1 June 2005
Pages
128
ISBN-13
9780060785918
Type
novel

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Cover of The Great Smelling Bee

About this book

The Great Smelling Bee followed the same month, June 2005, pitting self-appointed hustler Bernie Bridges against a smelling contest -- one of the gross-out set pieces at the heart of Stine's Rotten School comedy series. It's the second entry, illustrated by Trip Park, running 128 pages.

Its place in Rotten School

The Great Smelling Bee is book 2 in the Rotten School series. It follows The Big Blueberry Barf-Off!. It is followed by The Good, the Bad and the Very Slimy. See the full Rotten School reading order.

Rotten School is R.L. Stine's answer to a pure comedy series, trading Goosebumps' scares for the gross-out humor and social scheming of a boarding school for spoiled rich kids. Narrator Bernie Bridges is the school's self-appointed con artist and hustler, forever cooking up money-making schemes, elaborate pranks, and revenge plots against his nemesis Sherman Oaks, all while trying (and usually failing) to impress the girls of neighboring Rotten School dorm. Each book is a short, illustrated chapter book built…

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