When Arthur stays at Lottie's mysterious house, he makes sure he's prepared for anything. But the night turns out to be so scary that he is forced to use his ghost-fighting kit - with unexpected results.

Hugh was a walking-talking disaster without any friends. Then Bernice came along - with her amazing cures.

When you run away from home, spend two hours in a cupboard full of smelly socks, and then fall down an enormous hole, the last thing you'd normally want is to be pulled out by Ernest Dusting, the meanest, toughest kid in school.

Charles Grubb is very tidy. But his parents are grubs. Real grubs. So Charles decides to clean them up.

Mr Gimwraither is the meanest teacher ever to have screeched his fingernails down the blackboard! And even worse, he moves into the house down the road from where Clark lives.

Jason Prince lives in an enormous mansion with twenty-seven servants and his own theme park. But he has only ever left his grounds once. Now he meets Grace.

I watched Dusting hanging off the monkey bar by his toes for nineteen minutes in front of Phoebe. He even broke his own record, but I don't think she cared. Roger Thesaurus watches in disbelief as his worst best friend Peter Dusting, sworn girl-hater and bully, falls in love with the demure, sweet-natured Phoebe Drake - and gets them into more trouble than ever before.

Dusting thinks he is psychic and knows where to find buried gold. When a late-night dig at a creepy neighbour's place doesn't reveal any, he goes into partnership with Thesaurus and Millicent, and uses a school camping trip to start the business of gold hunting in earnest. But nothing is straightforward with this bunch, and when they accidently come into possession of a paper bag full of money, things take a sinister turn, in a hilarious sort of way.