When Malcolm spots an advertisement for Mystic Mack's Grow A Ghost, he jumps at the chance to have a butler ghost to do his chores and homework, and spy on his sister--but soon things start to go wrong, and this ghost proves difficult to get rid of.
Doctor Proctor, an inventor of bizarre things, uses his time-traveling bathtub to go back in time and fix some things, but when he cannot get back, Nilly and Lisa meet him in the past with some of the magical fart powder he invented.
"On Muddled-up Farm everything is mixed up! The cat says moo, and the cow meows. The goat goes woof and the chickens neigh. When a farm inspector visits he tries to get everything right but things don't go as he planned"--Provided by publisher.
The Fell family gets frustrated with their house devil so they trade him, but when Ms. Phisto arrives they must try desperately to find the "simple contract" they signed.
Rhyming text poses a series of questions about how the reader would deal with a moose that is on the loose, in the yard, in the house, or taking a bath.
