"Discover which animals are the best of friends and all about the fun they have together! Find out . . . facts about each animal and the characteristics which make them so cute"--Publisher.
Harris and Roxy visit Zeke's house after school, then Harris's parents invite Zeke's family to dinner, but trying to convince anyone that they are aliens only gets Harris grounded.
The widow McDowell and her seven-year-old son Thomas ask the gruff Jonathan Toomey, the best wood-carver in the valley, to carve the figures for a Christmas creche.
When Mia visits the home of her friend Pie, she is amazed by everything she sees, feels, smells, and tastes, but Pie is sure that her home is just as special.
Opal and Stew wonder if a turtle and tortoise are the same thing, so they go to the public library where the librarian shows them how to find information online.
Stew visits the public library for the first time and is overwhelmed by how large it is until he meets Opal, who shows him where everything is and teaches him how the library works.
They thought the nightmares would stop haunting them. But the five of them were wrong. They're older now. They're friends. But that friendship can be shattered so easily when life turns scary again. It was bad enough when it was just clowns and sharks and snakes. Back then, they had to conquer their own fear. Now...they have to conquer everyone else's.