"Just Shocking!" is the sixth book released of the "Just!" series by Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

Andrew "Andy" Griffiths is an Australian children's book author and comedy writer. He is most notable for his Just! series, which was converted into an animated television series called What's with Andy?...

. Released in late September 2007 in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, it tells 10 short but shocking stories about Andy.

This is the longest book in the "Just" series.

Fun with a fire hose

Andy and Danny imagine the circumstances and possibility of playing with a fire hose.

I am a Ro-bot

After seeing Jen read "I, Robot

I, Robot

I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...

", Andy pretends to be a robot and gets trapped in a closet. He escapes by saying he's not a robot and he's an alien.

Balloons of Doom

A choose-your-fate adventure in which, no matter what you do, you die at the end. You have to blow fifteen pink balloons and put them in Jen's bedroom while she is asleep for her to see in the morning. In the end, there is a plot twist, where Jen inhales a deadly odour you made with your breath while blowing up the balloons, and she dies. Your family gets caught in the stench and, as a result, die in the explosion because of the birthday candle fuses connecting with the stench, igniting the fumes.

Unfunniest Home Video

Andy and Danny try to stage a home video for "Australia's Funniest Home Videos", but Danny keeps getting distracted by a kitten. The camera eventually gets wrecked by the falling ladder, Jen catches Andy and Danny's incident on her camera phone, and sends it off to AFHV.

A Really, Really Good Excuse

Andy tells his class a very good excuse for being late and he was late because of his dentist appointment. This story has comic-like illustrations

Why I Love Choco Pops in 50 Words or Less

Andy writes a fifty-word essay of why he loves Choco Pops, and then includes thirty-five postscripts that have little to nothing to do with the essay.

Lemonade Roulette

It is a very hot day. When Andy goes to get a drink of water, he gets six cans of lemonade, then Andy and Danny get an idea. The friends play 'lemonade roulette', similar to Russian Roulette

Russian roulette

Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which participants place a single round in a revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head and pull the trigger...

where you have to shake and shuffle cans of lemonade. Mr. Bainbridge, returning home with his wife and Andy's parents, gets a can of lemonade blasted in his face when he goes to get a drink, and Andy gets in big trouble, but then Mr Bainbridge says that he enjoyed it and played Lemonade Roulette when he was a kid!

The Exploding Butterfly Story

A history of the universe, explaining it its eventually explosion, which begins with the explosion of a pretty pink butterflies. (37 pages)
once upon a time there was nothing.Nothing,nothing,nothing and still more nothing.Until,all of a sudden,there was a big explosion

Fun with a Monster Truck

Andy and Danny imagine the circumstances and possibility of driving in a monster truck.