Chapter 15: What Came Down the Chimney SUMMARY BY
TRENTON VERES
Grim, Gram, Max, Freak, and Gwen are all having a big Christmas Eve dinner. Grim is telling stories how he was so poor that instead of getting actual coal in his stocking, his dad would just write the word coal on a piece of paper. Gram is shocked on how he could tell such lies, but Grim explains how they are just tales. When they get to open one present on Christmas Eve Gram gets the same thing every time, but Max picks Freak’s present to him in this pyramid shaped box wrapped in Sunday comics. After following the arrows to a button Max pushes, all the sides fall down, and in the pyramid is a dictionary. However, this is no ordinary dictionary, this is a handmade dictionary by Freak with all of his favorite words in it with their own silly definition. When Freak opens his present from Max, it is a bunch of screwdrivers and a magnifying glass; however, Max thinks Freak could invent something out of it.