Margaret and Casey become worried when their father, an unemployed botanist, begins spending all his time in the creepy basement conducting plant experiments.

"Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they ... meet ... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy. Is this just part of their father's 'harmless' experiment? Or has the basement turned...

"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind.. Because they want to be friends ... forever..." -- P. [4] of cover.

Samantha, the laughingstock of the girl's basketball team, meets someone who can grant her three wishes. She isn't careful what she wishes for and they come true, turning her life into a living nightmare.

Lost in an Egyptian pyramid, twelve-year-old Gabe and his cousin Sari find they are not alone.

Because twelve-year-old Lucy pretends to see monsters everywhere, no one believes her when she discovers that the librarian in charge of the summer reading program is a real one.

Max and his friends have fun with a magic mirror which makes them invisible until it begins to get harder and harder to reappear.

136p. Baffled at the series of strange, unexplained events taking place at summer camp in the desert wilderness, twelve-year-old Billy considers escaping the horrors forever.