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This collection of tales is for fans of ghost-story writer Mary Downing Hahn's scary but not too scary books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky.

This beautiful tale follows a raindrop's journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond.

Mac must crack a secret code that has been recovered from a double agent.

Safe and cozy where he is, a tiny seed wants to remain in the drawer where he lives happily with other seeds.

Chopping blades, scorpion nests, giant spider webs - no one makes traps better than Wily Snare. He has never seen the sun or a blue sky or even his parents.

Windy Bottom, Georgia, is usually a peaceful place. Coop helps his mom at her café and bookstore, hangs out with his grandpa, and bikes around with his friends Justice and Liberty.

What's Mac B.'s newest top-secret mission? Travel to Iceland and retrieve the ravens that were stolen from the Tower of London...before Britain is ruined.

Thirteen-year-old Quinn Parker knows that there's something off about her neighbors.

Walter had spent all summer counting down the days until the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time.

Marcus is in trouble. He didn't think his friend Laurence would actually believe him when he said that his super brainy aunt built the very first time machine.

As the only Indian American kid in her small town, Lekha Divekar feels like she has two versions of herself: Home Lekha, who loves watching Bollywood movies and eating Indian food, and School Lekha

Eleven-year-old June is a problem-solver. Some people might call her a busybody, but that's okay. Just look at all the couples she helped find love!

One morning the residents of Dull-on-Sea wake up to find their town is overrun-with rats! Big rats, small rats, fierce rats, hungry rats...it's an infestation!

Libby and her friends are put in charge of the science booth at their school fair. There's only one problem: no one is visiting their booth! Does everyone think science is boring?

All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad.