Hubie's class is giving thanks for the things they enjoy most, but how can Hubie be thankful when none of his friends will make a float with him? How can Hubie eat all of the food for Thanksgiving dinner?.
Fourth grader Flo Gardner and her mother have just moved into the Corman Tower Apartment building, and she is pretty sure she does not like it--the boy werewolf next door is alright, but the monster spiders have got to go.
Becky's family has just moved next door to a creepy, abandoned house, but when mysterious howls, snarls, and an awful smell begins to come from the abandoned house Becky realizes there is something over there.
The team travels to the Florida swamplands in order to investigate the sighting of a strange creature, and find themselves in the middle of a high-speed airboat chase.
A boy warns his new neighbors of the trouble that comes with building a monster, including having to move to a different town in hopes of escaping his creation.