Ruby Sisson Library

After bank rehearsal, students trudge through a snowstorm and onto a bus that no one recognizes. The driver is missing, so one student begins to fool with the steering wheel and gearshift. That's a big mistake maybe the last mistake he'll ever make!

Ella does not like being touched so she usually sits at the back of the bus, but today she is at the front of the school bus when something strange happens--the actual seats at the back start pushing forward like a giant compacter, driving all the children together until all are crowded into the single remaining row, threatening to crush them all.

Told in rhyming text, little Chester the zombie can not sleep, disobeys his mother and sneaks out of his crypt for a snack.

Twelve-year-old Jordan and his friend Evan are picked up by a different school bus, driven by a shadowy figure, a bus where all the other children are bizarrely deformed, except for one girl at the back, and when the children see their reflections in the dirty windows they start to scream--but what will happen when they get off the bus at school?

Ivy and Gracie's fifth grade class is supposed to be going on a field trip to a museum, but the bus that picks them up, driven by a shadowy figure that nobody can quite see sitting behind a plastic wall, makes one detour due to construction, and then another, and suddenly the bus is accelerating and taking the children on a ride to destruction.

When Aubrey gets to the cafeteria for lunch she finds that there is a strange new cook, with a kitchen full of glowing bottles, and a big black pot full of mashed potatoes, so when all the children fall under a dish-washing spell it is obvious to Aubrey that their new lunch lady is a witch--or has Aubrey fallen asleep during science class and dreamed it all?

Sofia helps her grandmother make her special rice pudding, but there is a mix-up in the recipe.

Sofia helps her grandmother make her special rice pudding, but there is a mix-up in the recipe. "A Sofía le encanta cocinar, y está muy emocionada porque ayudará a su abuela a preparar arroz con leche usando su receta secreta. ¿Podrá un pequeño error arruinar toda la preparación? O peor aún, ¿arruinará toda la cena de la iglesia?"--Back cover.

"What do you make when bigfoot shows up at your door with an empty stomach? A meal that's tasty for your bigfoot guest (and pretty yummy for you, too)! Mix a mint and lemonade slushy and bake some crunchy fall leaf crackers and dip. Then, serve up a big bigfoot foot pizza for your new friend. Top it all off with a delicious woodland berry cheesecake that will make your guest think of home. Don't forget to explore more about bigfoot facts and fiction...

In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.