Mrs. Spangler is a woman who lives down the street from Greg. In Cabin Fever, it was mentioned that a year prior to the story she had won a raffle and the whole seventh grade had to come and clean up her backyard. When the kids arrived, they saw there were only two rakes so only two people were able to work. So the rest of the seventh graders had nothing to do and passed on the time and trashed the whole place. This resulted in the place being even more dirty then it was previously.