Visiting their uncle's seaside home for the summer, a brother and sister open a mysterious trunk in a back room and discover a sinister-looking pirate jack-in-the-box puppet that comes to life and takes them captive.

When animal-lover Kate orders a rare morphing lizard from Australia, what arrives in the mail is a box with a single egg and a warning note, forcing her to wonder if she's ready to handle what's about to hatch.

When his sister is bitten by an injured bird she tried to rescue, Cooper must figure out what's going on when she starts perching high up in trees, gathering sticks to hide in her room and refusing to eat her favorite foods.

Jordan Keppler is looking forward to a nice, quiet day at Carnival World, but Jordan and his sister Karla are about to experience something terrifying. There's a boy in a cage hidden away in a secret part of the park. And he's begging for some food. The sign next to him says "Please do not feed the weirdo". Jordan and Karla are about to find out what it's like to deal with an endless appetite.