An account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering.

Robby publishes a daily comic strip on the Web. It features Dr. Maniac, a villain with a wicked grin and even wickeder superpowers. And now Dr. Maniac is on the loose. In the real world, will Robby survive his encounter with Dr. Maniac and join the other kids who have been summoned to HorrorLand?

A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.

When Mickey and Amanda lapse in their cat-sitting duties and Bella the cat is hit by a truck, they replace the cat with a look-alike that causes more trouble than they expected.

"Detectives Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley investigate foul play at the opening of the Kalamazoo City Dome, the world's largest indoor amusement complex"--