"Esther Gold loves Halloween more than anything in the world. So she is determined to go trick-or-treating again this year despite the fact that her parents think she is officially too old...But when the night rolls around, something feels . . . off. No one is answering their door. The moon is an unnatural shade of orange. Strange children wander the streets, wearing creepy costumes that might not be costumes at all"--

The summer before eighth grade, Alice tries to confront her fears, not the least of which is a fear of deep water.

"Alex again has to write stories to survive, this time learning to finish discarded ideas and overcome writer's block, after he's held hostage in his dreams by fear vampire Simeon, working alongside evil witch Natacha in a story graveyard" --

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?

Elsie is afraid of haircuts, but when her father sends her to his hairdresser she meets someone at least as scared as she is--the hairdresser's own vampire father--and finds she had nothing to fear.

"Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and she's the only one who can stop the havoc"--

"Pedro loves monster trucks. He plays with his toy truck, writes about them at school, and even gets to go to a rally with his friends. But can monster trucks help him stop the monster in his dreams?"--Back cover.

"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in: avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."--

Ramón is worried about his first day at a new school, but it helps to remind El Cucuy, the monster who lives in his cactus pot, of how brave and strong they both are.

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class!The kids in Ms. Colman's class have found out a big secret! Mean Pamela Harding is afraid of animals. And now the class is going to the zoo. Chris and Omar have dared Pamela to hold a baby animal. Can she do it? Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has...