Books published by publisher Matt Fox

Chet is tired of people telling him he’s shy. He’s not antisocial, he just likes doing his own thing. But that’s not what the school guidance counselor sees. She sees a problem.The next thing he knows, his parents are telling him that he’s going to summer camp. But Chet’s never been to summer camp, and he doesn’t want to start now! Too bad. He’s already signed up.Now he’s learning that Camp Super-Moon is more than a regular summer camp. The counselors are weird. Really weird. They’re intense, they’re strict, and they care a little too much about the moon. And now Chet is beginning to suspect that they’re brainwashing the campers…

Ralph McDuff is tired of being short. He’s tired of his sister bossing him around, of the kids at school who tease him in gym class, and he’s tired of feeling insignificant. If only he were tall, everything would be different.But it doesn’t work like that. You are what you are, right? Wrong. Everything changes when you’re abducted by aliens. And anything is possible.They say they want to help Ralph. They say he’s been selected to receive biological modifications. They say a lot of things, those aliens. But can they be trusted?

Carrie does not believe in ghosts. She does not believe in magic, or curses, or any other so-called supernatural phenomenon. She believes only in what she can see with her own eyes.Her cousin Adam is exactly the opposite. He believes in ghosts so strongly that he wants to become a professional ghost hunter.Carrie rolls her eyes when Adam buys a ghost detector from the strange new store in town.“You’re only wasting your money,” she warns. He buys it anyway.They are about to leave the store when an item catches Carrie’s eye. A shadowbox.“I’ll get it for my mom,” she figures.The store owner warns that the shadowbox comes with a curse. Carrie buys it anyway. Big mistake.

Theo can’t believe it when his father, one of the world’s leading experts on Bigfoot, tells him to pack up and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime.A chance to see a different part of the world? A chance to experience the Canadian wilderness? A chance to find proof of Bigfoot?“Sign me up!” Theo says.But now he’s finding out that searching for an elusive wild animal is more dangerous than it seems. There’s a howl in the night and something savage in the air, and if Theo and his father are lucky enough they just might make it back home to tell about it.

Penelope has a problem: she’s bigger than the other girls in school. They tease her every day. Worse yet, her own brother makes fun of her. She would do anything to lose a few pounds, but dieting and exercise is so hard! If only there was a shortcut. But there are no shortcuts in life… right?Wrong. Because her favorite aunt just got back from a trip to Mexico and she’s brought something with her. A very special present. A crystal from the Giant Crystal Cave. A crystal, she says, with the power to grant wishes.But it’s not all fun and games. Penelope is about to find out that the old adage still holds true: Be careful what you wish for.

Shelly can’t believe it- stuck in the woods for a whole week with her boring grandparents. What could be worse? She misses her friends, she misses the city, and she misses Wi-Fi!But there’s something strange about these old woods. Her grandparents won’t stop talking about an old legend, a legend about a spirit who dwells in a massive tree they call the Great Sycamore. Shelly thinks they’re crazy. Spirits don’t exist, she says.But now Shelly is finding out that there’s more to these woods than superstition. And the legend of the Great Sycamore is about to change her life in ways she could never imagine.

Jane is the new girl at school, and she doesn’t have many friends yet. Only Kim, a social outcast, who won’t stop bugging her.“Give the girl a chance,” Jane’s mother advises. “Everyone needs a friend.”So Jane decides to make the best of a difficult situation. She invites Kim over for dinner. She shows her the new toy her father, a toy-developer, has just brought home. A teddy bear. A prototype of what her father’s company believes will be the next toy-sensation: the Best Friends Forever Bear.It walks, it talks, and it wants to know everything about you. Just download a personality, enter a name and get to know your new best friend. It’s that simple.But sometimes things are more complex than they seem. And Jane and Kim are about to find themselves in the middle of a living nightmare.

Joshua Edkins and his family, like the rest of humanity, can only watch in fascination when the first of the alien ships appear in the night sky.“Why have they come? What do they want with us? Are they friend or foe?” These are the questions on the tip of every tongue around the world.The answers will come soon enough: when the larger ships appear, when the alien trees begin to grow and when the things from another world first set foot on our planet. Fascination will turn to horror, and Joshua will find himself in the middle of the human resistance.Only one question remains: “Is it too late?”

Jon and his brother Andy don’t know much about what their father does for a living. They know he works with the military. They know enough not to ask questions.One day their father gets an urgent call from his boss, a call ordering him to report to his sector at once. There’s only one problem: he can’t find anyone to look after Jon and Andy.Now Jon and Andy are tagging along, eager to know more about their father’s secretive work. What they don’t know is that they’re on their way to the legendary Area 51, and that something terrible is waiting for them…

Keith, Jeremy, and Miles are best friends. They hang out together all the time. They go to the same school, they play basketball, and they always go to the town fair.But this year is different. There’s a strange new tent, selling strange new items. Items the boys have never heard of. Keith buys a mysterious tube containing a blue cream that promotes regeneration- at least, that’s what the vendor tells him.The boys think it’s all a big joke. They play a few pranks, perform a few experiments. Things go wrong. Very wrong.Now the boys are finding out that the mysterious tube contains the stuff of pure nightmares.