Table of Contents:
- Introduction /
- by Lemony Snicket
- Archie Smith, Boy Wonder /
- by Tabitha King
- Under the rug /
- by Jon Scieszka
- A strange day in July /
- by Sherman Alexie
- Missing in Venice /
- by Gregory Maguire
- Another place, another time /
- by Cory Doctorow
- Uninvited guests /
- by Jules Feiffer
- The harp /
- by Linda Sue Park
- Mr. Linden's library /
- by Walter Dean Myers
- The seven chairs /
- by Lois Lowry
- The third-floor bedroom /
- by Kate DiCamillo
- Just desert /
- by M.T. Anderson
- Captain Tory /
- by Louis Sachar
- Oscar and Alphonse: the Farkas Conjecture /
- by Chris Van Allsburg
- The house on Maple Street /
- by Stephen King
- Original introduction to The mysteries of Harris Burdick /
- by Chris Van Allsburg.