Disobeying Dad and Papa, Jenna Carter-Santos neglects her chores and, instead, follows a mysterious recipe for making slime, with horrific results.

The reader's choices determine whether three friends will survive after being mysteriously transported back in time to the Neolithic Era, when humans were first learning to farm and harvest and to domesticate animals.

"Look carefully! A dark shadow moves through the lapping lake water. It's the Loch Ness Monster! This shy serpent hides away from humans and treats lake dwellers with kindness. Ever wondered about Nessie's diet and other habits? Does the lake monster have companions? Wonder no more! Striking illustrations and matter-of-fact text take you on an underwater journey to learn all about the Loch Ness Monster"--

On the red, dusty moon of Rodmark, life is only possible within the dome walls of Lysande, because the air outside is poisonous, and there are monsters, or at least that is what all the citizens have been told; but thirteen-year-old Flossy has seen lights and people moving outside and she is determined to find out the truth of what is beyond the Dome--even if it means she can never go back.

Twelve-year-old Amelia is the youngest member of crew on the Meddler, a spaceship that salvages scrap metal and anything else of value; currently they are interested in exploiting a debris field near the planet Canus, home to their cabin boy Greeny and his dog-like race, and Amelia is mad because her mother will not let her take part, so she and Greeny stow away on the salvage ship--but not everybody sees this particular debris as free-for-the-taking,...

Fifth-grader Yin is really excited about her class trip to the International Space Station Three and the station museum's newest exhibit, the Star Cabbage, an alien plant discovered floating in space and considered harmless; but the station is on lockdown, the crew is not in evidence, and something large and growling is stalking the halls--but Yin is determined to investigate and find out whether the plant has mutated, or whether the real culprit...

Something has woken Lon, a boy on the Starlight spaceship, even though the rest of the crew remain in stasis, but what he finds is the stuff of nightmares--Pandora, a human child modified to interface with computers and a tool of the race of vampires called Lamprey, has attached tubes to all the other humans and is draining their blood to feed her masters, and Lon and the ship's computer must find a way to save them all before it is too late.