There's a new gym teacher transferring over from the junior high, and Hubie is worried. The junior high students say he's big, mean, and blows his whistle a lot. Will Hubie really have to run a lap around the world to pass Mr. Green's class? Will he be able to lift Mr. Green's pickup truck and climb up a rope while it's on fire? Hubie doesn't want to go to gym class anymore!

As his class prepares to visit the school library for the first time, a young boy imagines the worst, based on stories he's heard about the librarian, Mrs. Beamster.

Our new school bus driver is named T. Rex Fenderbender. We hear he drives like he's in the Indy 500! Strap on your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride...to school.

A young boy, faced with the prospect of having to take a music class, thinks about all the terrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

There's a new class coming for the first day of school and Mrs. Green is worried. Is it true that the class is really weird and that they put their last three teachers into early retirement? Will the students really turn into horrible ghouls as soon as they get to school?

The students in Mrs. Green's class get a bit nervous when she announces she is going to bring in a class pet but will not reveal what it is--letting their imaginations run wild.

The class is expecting a new kid who comes from far away and Hubie is worried. What if the new kid is from Mars? What if he has purple eyebrows, green antennae, and blue skin? What if he's really coming to take over the world? Or worse, what if he's a body snatcher! Wherever the new kid is from, whatever the new kid is, one thing is certain, he'll fit in fine at the Black Lagoon.

A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the computer teacher, Miss Pluggins, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

When Miss Hearse, the nurse, announces that a dentist named Dr. B.N. Payne is visiting the school on Friday, Hubie's imagination runs wild.