The students at Emerson High learn a shocking lesson about cruelty when a strange new student, Anabel Stone, arrives on the scene--a girl who shares the same name with a witch hanged at Salem.
Jason is upset to learn his favorite old oak tree is going to be cut down to make way for a new sports complex, but his distress turns to fear when he realizes the tree is literally fighting for its life.
Ernie, having spent time with his friends taunting neighborhood cats, finds himself living a nightmare when he wakes up one morning to discover he has become a cat himself.