Kyle and Annie want to celebrate Thanksgiving like the pilgrims. They want to wear stovepipe hats, bake their own pies--even raise their own turkey. Then they meet Frankenturkey! Frankenturkey is big, bad, and mad. If Kyle and Annie don't watch out, Frankenturkey will eat them for Thanksgiving dinner.

At the school picnic, Ryan and Alex step on ants and drown them. They think they've seen the last of the ants until something ugly and really big follows them home.

Tori's bored stiff. She's totally sick of school. Her little brother is a pain. Even her best friend is driving her crazy. Tori would do anything to have some fun. Then Tori finds a mysterious notebook. Each time she opens it, a new spell appears. And each time Tori tries a spell, things happen -- silly things, gross things, hilarious things. Now Tori's having fun ... until the goofy spells turn gruesome.

Matt loves being trapped by snow at a roadside inn and missing school, but then he discovers that the innkeeper and the other "guests" are aliens from another planet who are conducting an experiment with Matt's family.