The Best Worst Christmas Ever is a story about a family - a dad, two daughters, and a son - whose holiday vacation has been canceled due to poor weather conditions. The children are upset about their ruined holiday, and so the dad has to come up with a way to salvage Christmas Eve despite protests from the children. To make it worse, the electricity goes out, and so the family has to be creative in order to make the most of their situation.
Obesseus the Mighty Muncher is about a hero named Obesseus who must fight against food-based villains to keep them from taking over Snackland. He initially believes that an old friend of his, Monica Mango, is behind it all, but Obesseus comes to learn who is really behind this uprising and must fight to preserve his way of life.
Martin has a cool, mysterious great aunt who always brings back souvenirs for him from her world travels. This time, she brought him back a rare pair of shoes and lets him in on a secret - the existence of a place called the Black Market. The Black Market is a market that only pops up on Halloween night, and can be anywhere in the world. Martin tells his friend Jess the secret, and they decide to look for the Black Market. By the end of Halloween night, Martin has obtained a "bag of dirty tricks," even though he's not sure what that means.
Fairytale Apocalypse is a story with three main characters: two twins (Lauren and Tessa) and a fae Lord (Kagan). On the day of the girls' sixteenth birthday party, Lauren runs away to the fae land, convinced that it is her destiny to marry the Lord of the Verge (the border between the magic fae land and the mortal realm). Tessa follows Lauren to save her from this lord and from herself. Tessa does stop Kagan and Lauren from being together by bringing Lauren back to the mortal land, but at a great cost to both places.
Journey to the Dark Galaxy is the second book in The Dark Galaxy Series. Sam is a 13 year old girl who, through the course of the first book, became the queen of an alien race. Because of this title and her previous adventure, her safety is at risk. Because of threats being made to Earth with regard to Sam, she and her friends are whisked away by the Great Alliance for Interplanetary Affairs (GAIA) to their base, where they will have to stay for an indefinite amount of time. Separately, a scientist named Kwan is recruited to GAIA to help with the alien threat.
Sanity Test is a short book consisting of e-mails being exchanged mostly between a psychiatrist and someone who claims to be a former patient of his. The conversation begins a bit more professionally on the psychiatrist's side, but over the course of the story, devolves into something else. The psychiatrist is not sure which parts of the exchanges to believe, and neither are we as readers. We are left to wonder who is really spiraling and whether what we are being told is actually happening.
