A collection of twelve scary stories in which people come back from the dead, two quarreling brothers turn into animals, and other strange things occur.
The Forgetful Bears cannot remember where they put the airplane tickets for their vacation, or even where they are going, until they get help from a wise old elephant named Mr. Memory.
Jeremy, a streetwise runaway who is searching for his abusive stepfather, becomes trapped in the middle of a deadly feud between two neighbors who have taken opposing stands on the issue of hunting.
When the Forgetful Bear family decides to go on a picnic, they forget the food, the car, their grandfather, and their own names, but they have a good time anyway.
A biography of the president who, with little education but great determination, preserved the American Union during the Civil War and followed his dream to abolish slavery.
Mysteriously drawn to an Indiana museum, a twelve-year-old paralyzed girl encounters ghosts who return her to a former life, where she attempts to save the son of a freed slave traveling by Underground Railroad in.