Brooke Rodgers is the main protagonist in the twenty-fourth book, Phantom of the Auditorium.
History
Brooke and her best friend, Zeke Matthews attended Woods Mill Middle School and auditioned for a play that their teacher, Ms. Walker had arranged called The Phantom as they are both horror fans. Ms. Walker told them that the play was cursed, but Brooke and Zeke did not believe her and thought of it as a joke. They also heard rumors of a phantom haunting their school, but no one had ever seen him. Brooke and her friends only knew that he had been haunting Woods Mill Middle School for more than seventy years.
One Friday afternoon at the end of school, Brooke struggled to get her locker open, thinking about her weekend, when Zeke sneaked up behind her and asked if she had any homework. Brooke told him that she was free and as she was discussing about going to the Creature festival when Zeke reminded her about the cast list for the play. A nervous Brooke couldn't look at first, but then changed her mind and to her horror, she saw a note saying that she was suspended from school, but then it turned out to be a joke by Zeke. Then Brooke saw that she and her friend had actually got the two biggest parts as Esmerelda and The Phantom respectively. Zeke was not convinced at first until Tina Powell, a seventh-grader that Brooke does not get along with told him so. Brooke then asked Tina if she had a part, to which Tina replied that she is Brooke's understudy, meaning that she will play Esmerelda if Brooke was unable to attend and boasted that she was also in charge of the scenery. Brooke wanted to say something nasty to Tina, but was so happy about having the part of Esmerelda, she decided to ignore her.
On Monday, Brooke and her friends had begun to rehearse the play and were really excited. Brooke's friend, Corey Sklar, who was playing Esmerelda's father, asked her what the play was about, to which Brooke replied that she only knew it was scary. Then Tina piped up saying that her great-grandfather was a student of the school and he had told her about the curse of the play, which got everyone very excited. Ms. Walker, who was running the play did not think it was a good time to tell the story as it was upsetting, but Brooke and her friends, led by Zeke, forced her to tell them. Ms. Walker eventually told of how a young boy hunted around in the basement of the library for a story to do a play on. Eventually, he found the script of The Phantom and he earned the role of The Phantom himself. But on the night of the performance, the boy playing The Phantom had suddenly disappeared and was never found again and the play was never performed.
Personality
Brooke is quite a thrill-seeker, especially when it comes to horror stuff and she does have a fair bit of humor in her and she can be pretty cheeky. Sometimes she can get really frustrated with some things, such as her allergies, her locker and Tina, whom Brooke has a bad relationship with because of Tina's dislike of her, even though Brooke hardly even knows her. Brooke may not get along with Tina, but she is not a mean and nasty person and finds it hard to come up with anything like that. She likes Ms. Walker as a teacher and is very careful to try not to get on her bad side. Brooke is very close to Zeke and she doesn't care if the other girls think it is weird that her best friend is a boy. She and Zeke have been friends for nine years and they just know everything about each other (for example, Brooke knows that Zeke still wears Kermit the Frog pajamas). Brooke never thinks of Zeke as cute because she has known him her entire life. She can get pretty annoyed with some of Zeke's jokes, but other than that, Brooke is good friends with him. She sometimes has a tendency to just rattle, earning her the nickname "Babbling Brooke" and also to change her mind a lot, which drives Zeke crazy. Brooke also hates her glasses, as she thinks they make her look nerdy and she often wishes they could disappear.
Appearance
Brooke is twelve years old, Caucasian, tall and thin with chestnut brown hair and glasses.
Appearances
Books
- Goosebumps
- Classic Goosebumps
- Phantom of the Auditorium
Television and Film
- Season 1 - Phantom of the Auditorium
Actress
- Jessica Moyes (television series)