Books in Major League Chillers series

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…

Dwight loves bowling. Maybe a little too much. In fact, the only thing he likes more than bowling is winning. His mom and friends are always telling him that he’s too competitive. They say he should learn to relax and have a little fun. But as far as Dwight is concerned, it’s only fun when you win. The problem is, he’s stuck in a small town, with smalltime competition. If only he could find a place where people take bowling as seriously as he does. There’s no telling how far he could go! But he should have heeded the old lesson: be careful what you wish for, because now he’s in over his head, and the only way to reach his home sweet home is to win. Will he rise to the occasion, or will the pressure crush him like a tin can?

Randy Miller would do anything to be a better goaltender. His twin brother, Gordy, is the star of the team, and the girl he likes, Kelly, hardly notices him. Randy is jealous- why can’t he be the star hockey player in the family? And then one day Randy and his best friend, Jack, walk into a strange new store called Five Dimensions Curio & Pawn. The shelves are packed with spooky items and the air is filled with mysterious music. And then there’s the back room, where Randy finds an item that will change his life forever: a voodoo doll. But voodoo isn’t real. It can’t be… right?

Malcolm and his sister Maria can’t believe it when their neighbor, the kind and elderly Mrs. Valentine, asks them to look after her house for the weekend. “It’ll be easy,” she insists. “Open and close the windows, flush the toilets and feed the cat. No big deal.” But then there’s the basement door at the end of the hallway. The door with the KEEP OUT sign in red letters. The door with the big padlock. And the soft knocking of someone- or something- trapped behind it. Malcolm and Maria don’t know it yet, but they’re in for the scariest weekend of their lives.

It’s the first week of summer vacation. Eva can’t wait. Her best friend Sandra is coming over to go swimming, and it’s a beautiful day. What could be better? That was before her mom began working on her latest invention. She calls it The Diminisher. Eva doesn’t think much of it until there’s an accident in the basement- an explosion. Nobody is hurt, but her mother’s workshop is a mess. But that’s the least of Eva’s problems. Because Sandra’s seen too much of the strange invention. She’s curious. And when Sandra gets curious, bad things happen. They’re about to learn that the world is a dangerous place when you’re three inches tall.

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.

Solomon’s grandfather, Professor Morgan Moats, is a famous paleontologist. He knows everything about dinosaurs, and has unearthed some of the world’s most famous fossils. Solomon would do anything to follow in his footsteps. One day a mysterious man with deep pockets shows up at the professor’s office. He promises an opportunity to dig up the rarest fossil known to man. The retired professor suddenly finds himself unretired. And he’s taking Solomon with him. But something is wrong at the dig site in Utah. The paleontologists are being treated like prisoners. Security guards watch every move they make. There are whispers that the land is sacred. Are they there to dig up a dinosaur, or a horrible secret?

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.

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.

Jon and his brother Andy are back for more action at the world’s most secretive base: Area 51. And this time the stakes are higher. Andy’s future self has traveled back in time to deliver a grave message. The Earth of his time is in ruin. Civilization has collapsed, and the only way to save it is to find Doctor Watkins before it’s too late. First they’ll have to break into Area 51. Then they’ll have to track down Doctor Watkins in the maze of top-secret sectors. If that wasn’t bad enough, a maniacal billionaire is hot on their trail, determined to stop them from foiling his twisted plans for domination.

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?

Nathan and his best friend J.T. are always playing pranks at the Dobbins Petal Orphanage. Nobody takes them too seriously, though. It’s all in good fun. They never push the envelope too far. Until one horrible night… J.T. wants to sneak out past curfew. He wants to go all the way to the most dangerous corner in the neighborhood, and he dares Nathan to come with him. “Fine,” Nathan says. “What’s the worst that could happen?” But he should have listened to his gut. He never should have gone along. Because now Nathan is finding out that you can’t trust a stranger. Especially a stranger who gives you a mysterious round object wrapped in newspaper: a cursed shrunken head.