Amos and the Chameleon Caper (6 page)

When Jim Stanton’s family moves to a small town in New Mexico, everyone but Jim is
happy. There’s something strange about the town. The people all dress and act alike. Everyone’s
too
polite. And they’re all eerily obedient to the bosses at Folsum Labs.

Though he has been warned not to leave town, Jim wanders into the nearby mountains. There he meets Maria, a mountain girl with a shocking secret that involves Folsum Laboratories, a dangerous mind control experiment, and—most frightening of all—Jim’s family.

Tag Jones and his friend Cowboy spend their days diving in the azure water surrounding Bermuda. It’s not just for fun—Tag knows that somewhere in the coral reef there’s a sunken ship full of treasure. His father died in a diving accident looking for the ship, and Tag won’t give up until he finds it. But when two tourists want Tag to retrieve some mysterious sunken parcels for them, Tag and Cowboy may be in dangerous water, way over their heads!

Thirteen-year-old Jesse Rodriguez can’t wait to turn sixteen and finally be old enough to make his first skydive. But when Jesse and his friend Robin find themselves in the middle of a dangerous international situation, they may have to make their first jump a few years early!

Each day at exactly three
P.M.
, Chris Masters faces two great challenges. First he races home, trying to avoid the school bullies who have made a career of beating him up. Then, once he’s safely in his bedroom, he takes on another opponent—a computer game called The Seventh Crystal. Chris doesn’t know who created the game, but he does know The Seventh Crystal is the most challenging computer game he has ever faced. Chris becomes obsessed with mastering the game. So obsessed that the game seems
real
—and then Chris has something much bigger than bullies to worry about.