Michael Dahl presents: Side-splitting stories

Every year West Clabberton has a scavenger hunt, and for the 100th year the town is having a statue made of the winning team, and two teams, the Choppers and the Pampercurlerz, are particularly determined to win; so determined, in fact, that they spend the entire hunt trying to sabotage each other--and ignoring what other teams are doing.

In need of money to buy tickets for the Monster Madness Convention, Alex and Ronnie take a job painting a neighbor's garage; easy money, until Alex fears that he has let their neighbor's excitable puppy, Yorgy, out of the house and the boys and their friend, Kendra, follow the trail through swamp and garbage dump--and straight into the heart of the convention, where their chase takes an unexpected turn.

Proud members of the Bug Society of Littleton, sixth-graders Doug, Josie, Kira, and Reginald, are transformed into part-insect superheroes when they get mixed up with a mad scientist's experiment involving radioactive bugs--and they have to use their insect superpowers to defeat the evil insect villain.

Ten-year-old Angie DelMar is sure that there is something creepy and dangerous about her new neighbor, Ms. Doody: somebody who has a book entitled The ABCs of World Domination is obviously up to no good; but when Angie and her friends steal the growth serum intended to create giant insects they accidentally release it at the local day care--and the town is suddenly besieged by giant screaming toddlers in diapers.