Fiction

When one of the Snot-Bots creates a mess on Farts and Crafts day, Sludge gets an idea to bring massive, messy mayhem to Electropolis. Using his radiation ray gun, Sludge creates an army of Butt-Bombs and then sets them loose in the sewers. When the...

Sludge is sick of the Clean Team foiling his attempts to turn Electropolis into his own putrid playground. So he hatches his most cunning plan yet. He sends one of the Snot-Bots in disguise as a rookie bot named Bit-Con to join his enemies, the Clean...

A bored student sits in the library, scribbling in an old book. Then his pen suddenly fills the margins with a menacing monster. Tentacles reach out and pull the boy into the pages! But the powerful Librarian has already been drawn into the paper. Is...

A strange woman is handing out free metal bookmarks. A girl takes one. Ouch! She pricks her finger and a dot of blood drips out. The woman smiles with sharp teeth at the sight. The girl will soon become an unwilling member of her ghoulish book club . . ...

A bookstore closes for the night. Nothing inside stirs, except for one creeping thing: a human hand! The cursed part hunts for someone to read its handwriting so it can unleash an evil spirit into the world. Can the mighty Librarian stop the wicked hand...

A young Page, a worker in the Library of Doom, is trapped. A wizard's ancient curse pulled him into the Shifting Shelves, gigantic bookcases that turn and twist and collide. Can the powerful Librarian free the boy from the maze of moving boards, or will...

The race is on for the Gamer! Villain Cynthia Cyber has captured two victims in her video game Space Racers. The helpless players cannot escape their speeding cars. Even worse, a monster racer is threatening to destroy them. The Gamer must drive on to...

Fourteen-year-old Meg knows aliens are real. Everyone does. But she's not happy with them. Extraterrestrials landed on Earth twenty years ago and took off fast. They didn't leave behind advanced science or miracle cures. Instead, they delivered an alien...

Fourteen-year-old Meg knows aliens are real. Everyone does. But she's not happy with them. Extraterrestrials landed on Earth twenty years ago and took off fast. They didn't leave behind advanced science or miracle cures. Instead, they delivered an alien...

Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hit the mean streets of New York, ready to battle bots and eat pizza! Kids ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell...

The annual Pumpkin Festival is only one month away! This year, Poppy is in charge of the annual goat races. There's only one problem. Vincent Van Goat isn't interested in racing--or even running for that matter. He's more interested in eating grass,...

The annual Pumpkin Festival is only one month away! This year, Poppy is in charge of the annual goat races. There's only one problem. Vincent Van Goat isn't interested in racing--or even running for that matter. He's more interested in eating grass,...

Do you know any scary stories? It's Halloween and Alex is excited to be watching horror movies and telling ghost stories with his cousins. When it's Alex's turn to share, he tells the terrifying tale of Jack Hatchett, local hardware store owner and...

There's nothing to be afraid of in graveyards... Clara and her family have always lived near graveyards. Most would find it creepy, but not Clara. After all, a graveyard is really nothing more than a big garden planted with tombstones. But Clara can't...

THWACK! Sitting in the backseat of the car, Daphne is dying of boredom just thinking about the two weeks she's about to spend camping with her family. Suddenly--THWACK! A bird crashes into the windshield. When Daphne's dad gets out of the car to see if...

Scritch, scratch... One day after floor hockey practice, ten-year-old Zack hears some strange sounds in the school gym. But he's the only one in there. It sounds like scratching...and it's coming from inside the walls. As he investigates, he wonders what...

What happens when a smart toy gets a little too smart? Victor is thrilled to get the toy he's always wanted for Christmas. It's a LenBot--a smart robot that can learn anything. For once, it's a toy that lives up to the hype. The robot really does become...

Do you really know what's lurking in the basement of your school? Packing a bunch of dusty books into boxes doesn't sound like a very difficult job, so Matt doesn't think twice when the old librarian at his school offers him the chance to earn some cash...

With nowhere left to live after losing his parents and working his way through a long list of relatives on the mainland, Ollie finds himself at his grandpa's house in Sueño Bay, "home of the supernatural." Miserable and intending to get away from the...

Conor loves to climb. So when the crusty old manager of a thrill ride based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" challenges Conor to scale the ride in the dark of night and hide a package at the top, he foolishly accepts. But it isn't long...