Laci, being small, is able to slip out and she helps Billy and Maggie escape from their vine prison.

He takes them to the garden, which is seemingly bare until vines start rising up and twist around the kids. Then an elderly man walks who tells them he is the gardener. He introduces himself as The Cold Man and tries to trap Billy in the chest, but once he grabs the kids, their heat starts to melt him. They go there, along with Maggie's friend Laci and find a chest containing a man trapped in a block of ice, who breaks out of it easily. Despite their dad's orders to avoid the dump, they go there the next day and find the suitcase, only to discover that it is empty.īack at home, Billy tries reading the diary again and discovers a clue he hadn't noticed before, as there is a mention of a Coldman House, a house in their neighborhood that is rumored to be haunted.

The diary ends before he can go into more detail, but he says it will be continued in Diary #2, and the siblings now want to go back to the dump to possibly find it in the suitcase. The next day, Maggie explains that one entry had Slappy mentioning wanting to find The Gold, and they assume that this treasure could finally make them rich so dad won't have to worry about finances. Maggie finds an entry she finds interesting but Dad swipes the diary away before she can tell Billy about, and then forces the kids to go to bed. They read it and find entries of Slappy bragging about the troubles he has brought to previous owners. When they get home, they find a diary that fell out of the suitcase and discover that it belongs to Slappy.

He starts insulting the family and then spews cockroaches everywhere.Īfter a struggle, Maggie knocks Slappy out with a frying pan and they shove him back into the suitcase, then take him back to the dump. When they get home, they find a card in his pocket with strange words on it. While at the dump, Billy and his sister Maggie find a suitcase containing an old dummy. Dad got a job at the dump in order to make extra money. His new school is in a rich neighborhood, but he manages to get along with the students despite not being as well off as them. Is Billy brave enough to follow Slappy's darkest secrets?īilly McGee is starting at a new middle school after his family was forced to move due to no longer being able to afford their old house after the death of his mother. There are clues that lead to something special. But Slappy's diary isn't just daily thoughts and feelings. What do you do with a diary written by a dummy? Do you read it? Billy has to figure out that answer fast. But Slappy isn't the only thing Billy discovers. The dummy's name is Slappy, and he causes a whole lot of trouble. Billy McGee finds a ventriloquist dummy at the dump.

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