Contains ten stories by leading children's book authors, each of which features the phrase "I told you so, " including selections from Johanna Hurwitz, Barbara Ann Porte, David A. Adler, and others.
Somebody is playing nasty tricks on Ryan DeMoss, point guard for the Hillcrest Hammers, and it is starting to interfere with his game right before the big tournament.
When a junior high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals, the harmless pranks escalate until they become life-threatening.
Seven-year-olds Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy make observations and gather clues that convince them that their older siblings, cousin, and animals have been captured by hungry space aliens.
Having broken her leg practicing for the annual Color War competition, Jenna is falsely accused of pulling a series of pranks that could get her sent home, and so, with little to lose, she begins planning her revenge.
Eleven-year-old Jenna Bloom is aggravated having her twin brother and older sister at the same camp with her over the summer and decides to exercise her own independence through a series of practical jokes that grow less and less funny to her friends.
After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening to her.
