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Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!.

Seatbelts, everyone! The Magic School Bus is back and ready to ride again. Professor Frizzle's kid sister Fiona might be the new teacher at Walkerville Elementary, but she's got the same old motto: take chances, make mistakes, and get messy! She decides to take the class camping, but come night fall their tent grounds are pitch black. But Arnold's been watching a ton of scary movies and has been having trouble going to sleep at night. What will Arnold do without a night light? The class thinks fast and learns a ton about renewable energy.

Miss Hearse tells the children a dentist is coming to the school to exam their teeth and they all imagine the horrible things he will do to them.

The students must deal with a scary bus driver named Mr. Fenderbender, mosquitoes as large as Dracula, and their mean teacher, Mrs. Green, on their class trip to the Black Lagoon.

When Chester the raccoon goes to bed at sunrise, the shadows cast in his room are frightening and keep him from falling asleep.

A turtle afraid of small dark places, and therefore of crawling into his shell, asks a variety of animals for advice, only to find out that each has a fear of its own.

Jack Harmon, who is bullied at school, finds a cell phone and hears a strange voice who wants him to do bad things.

Mrs. Green has heard all kinds of horrible things about her new students and fears it will be a terrible year, only to be pleasantly surprised when they arrive looking like perfectly normal children.

Everyone in Mrs. Conner's first-grade class loves their visitor, Sparky the bunny, except Reza, who tries to overcome his fear when the teacher gives him a special job.

Harry goes down to search for his mother when she doesn't return from a trip to the cellar, and has to confront the terrible two-headed whatzit.