The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that s not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...

"Tech gadgets are disappearing left and right at school, and Lunch Lady must get to the bottom of it!"--

"When their friend Ikumi goes missing, Ian and Lilli must enter another dangerous digital world to save her and defeat Atreus"--

On Saga, a world based on a video role-playing game, fifteen-year-old Ghost lives to break rules, but the Dark Queen who controls Saga plans to enslave its people and those of New Earth, and Ghost and her airboarding friends, along with Erik and his friends from Epic, try to stop her.

Emmy and Birch, and their tamed wolf, Byte, attempt to survive the epic expanse of the Overworld on their latest adventure.

This time Super Rabbit Boy will need the power of the Super Wand to defeat the evil King Viking--but first he must go on a seemingly endless series of quests before he can obtain the wand and save the day.

Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.

When Jen and her sister Evil Jen discover the location of the Cookie Islands, Pat and his friends must go back to the Underworld to stop them from triggering the destruction of all the realms of existence.

In the Arcade World, Travis, Journey, and Devonte compete against each other and a mystery racer in a race to the finish.

Camila wants to buy a camera, camera stand, and a microphone to record for her WeTube channel, and her brother suggests that an uncoming video game tournament might be the way to get the money she needs; but Camila does not play video games, and though her family supplies what she will need to practice she only has a month to perfect her gaming skills--and that may not be enough to win. Includes discussion questions, glossary, and related activity....