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A collection of ghost stories with African-American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

Nineteenth-century stories and poems show life as seen through the eyes of the settlers.

A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.

Three easy-to-read scary stories about a talking doll, a dog picture that barks, and a Halloween monster.

Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty and at the mercy of a cold-hearted school mistress when her father dies, but she continues to believe in her own self worth and is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

It was just a blank blue scrap. Somehow, he Kew it was a library card.

A collection of nine scary stories about a woman who is turned into a dog, a joke that makes people disappear, and other unusual situations.

A collection of thirteen stories, featuring animal characters and lessons about life.

Thirteen short stories, by such authors as Nancy Varian Berberick, Gregory Maguire, and Margaret Bechard, about unicorns in both mythical and contemporary settings.

Presents three stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, covering such topics as going to the vet, making friends with a rocklike creature, and getting a bath.

Presents three rhyming stories featuring a stingy and mean old doctor, a disembodied head, a missing hairy toe, and other scary things.

Six stories about Angus, a toy bull, and Jamie, the boy who owns him.

DeWayne's friend is acting creepy, and DeWayne needs to get away-fast.