No! I Won't Go to School

Zombies, monsters, and dragons stalk this books pages. Cries of despair echo through them. Prisons and dungeons lie in wait. Is this a nightmare? Is it an apocalypse? Well, yesbecause its the day before our narrators first day of school, and all entreaties to his mother are falling on deaf ears. Why should he go to school when he already knows two letters, N and O, and he knows they spell NO!, which is exactly the word this occasion demands? Why arent these magic letters working anymore? Lexile Level 490; F&P Level L