Xavier Bonet

Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.

Bennie, Mateo, and their friends love playing tag, but when Bennie tells a story about the original "it" being a boy who turned into a monster, nobody really expects it to actually happen--and that is just one of the scary stories in this collection.

Violet, her cousin Leon, and the Pixie Tricker Sprite have a serious problem: the fairy they are dealing with now is a water sprite named Aquamarina, who is not only messing up plumbing all over town, but has made a home in a fish tank at the pet store, and has turned anyone who sees her into fish--in the water she is powerful so the three fairy-hunters must come up with a way to trick her onto dry land where she can be overcome.

Livia wears a small porcelain hand around her neck, all that is left of a doll that once belonged to her grandmother, but on the first night at summer camp the hand comes alive and terrifies an envious cabinmate--and there are plenty of chills in five other stories in this collection. "Esta colección de historias escalofriantes te dejará temblando. Una película sobre una invasión de extraterrestres se hace realidad. Una cacería en un bosque...

"A snappy, informative travel guide for the time traveler complete with humorous maps, reviews of places to stay, and top attractions and tips on who to have lunch with"--