Mike Thaler

There's a new gym teacher at school and a little boy imagines him to be a real monster until he sees him in person and realizes he is a regular, likeable person.

A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

Everyone has to run for an office in Mrs. Green's class election.

When a new cafeteria lady starts, the kids worry about what kind of food she will prepare.

It's Dental Heath Month, and some strange dentist is going to be poking his head into the mouths of all the students. Hubie has heard all kinds of wild things about dentists. Some say they have four hands and two heads, and that they put crazy things like bridges and crowns in people's mouths. How on earth can you fit a bridge in someone's mouth? When it's Hubie's turn to show off his choppers, he's obviously very nervous. What on earth will the dentist...

Field day is one week away, and everyone has to go. But you'd rather go home! Crazy coach Kong is making up all the events! You might leap over lions, hop over hippos, skip through snakes, and tiptoe around tigers! Will it be a field day of dreams or a field day of screams?

Mean Mrs. Green says that everyone has to invent something for the school science fair. But everyone would rather invent a way to get out of it! Hubie can't decide on what he's going to do. He thinks all the good inventions have been done already. And all of his friends have figured out what they are going to do. He tries to decide between cloning himself or building a laugh machine. After a bad dream about cloning, he decides to build a laugh machine....

Hubie just feels sick because baseball fever is catching everyone. The only hit he had last year was when he got hit in the head by a ball. Will he make the big hit this year and knock the ball out of the park?

The class of the Black Lagoon decides to have a dunking tank for their booth at the school carnival, only it turns to nightmare when they realize there might be sharks or other monsters in the tank.