Can a sousaphone, a set of tapestries, and some very smelly cigars defeat an ever-growing horde of creatures? Halle Thompson dreams of acting in scary movies like the ones directed by her idol, Maximus Price. So when Halle has the chance to go to his mansion, she leaps at it! Little does she know there's more than old movie props waiting for her on the grounds of Price Manor... Paisley and Argyle, Maximus's twins, think the creepy squid-like creatures...

Eleven-year-old Luke and his dog, Haru, are the best of friends. Totally inseparable. But when their nasty landlord falsely accuses Haru of biting her, Haru is kidnapped! As Luke and his friends go on a serious mission to find and bring Haru home again, they discover mysterious experiments happening at the old laboratory at Painted Lake, owned by an evil multi-billionaire named Mr. Thomas Sinclair. And Luke and his friends soon fear that Sinclair's...

Nineteen years ago, a parasitic fungal outbreak killed the majority of the world's population. In one of the few remaining quarantine zones, thirteen-year-old Ellie begins her new life as a ward of a military boarding school, where a friendship with fellow student Riley leads to her first trip into the outside world. Beyond the walls of the regimented civil order they know, Ellie and Riley are soon confronted with the violent way of life of the insurgent...