One summer afternoon, Ray and Abby search for a mysterious haunted house, unaware that danger won't come from ghosts, spooks, or things that go bump in the night, but from the insects, mosquitoes to be exact.
A day at Sardis Lake, Mississippi turns into trouble for Robbie Bridgeman and his two friends, Tara and Landon Phillips, who just want to catch "the big one" and end up catching a prehistoric shark that is over sixty feet long.
Damon, Amber, and Tracy discover a martian spacecraft has crashed in October Mountain State Forest, and they quickly find themselves battling for their lives in a fight to the finish with the maniac martians.
Siblings Jason and Jillian, having come across an unusual lizard while hiking in Kentucky, realize from research that they have found a Komodo dragon and find their lives in danger when they set out to capture it.
To earn money to buy a new bicycle, Kayla Blaisdale takes a part-time job at a new farm not far from her home in Prairie City, Iowa, but the farm is owned by a quirky inventor named Mr. Nelson, who is experimenting with a new strain of ivy he's created.