Everything goes wrong for eleven-year-old Artie on his first day at Ardmore Middle School, from the moment his alarm goes off until the next morning, when everything is repeated exactly the same way.

Determined to teach even on a snow day, Miss Irma Birmbaum encounters mysterious lights that transform her into an Abominable Snow Teacher.

When the other children on the school bus run away, a little girl wonders if there was a monster on the bus.

Jake and his friends are playing in the local soccer tournament, and from the start everything goes wrong: they end up playing in banana suits (do not ask), Amelia, the fifth grade bully, forces her way on to the team and gets a yellow card, Jake injures his ankle--but worst of all, the chaos causes Mr. Hyde to turn into his alter ego, the Creature, a nasty imp bent on mischief.