Unforgotten Coat / Frank Cottrell Boyce 42 p.

Sarah Coomes narrates with story of two boys, immigrants from Mongolia. Julie becomes their "good guide" through the soccer, British slang, school dress-down days. The brothers are fleeing a demon who makes you vanish. They takes different ways home every night. They have piqued her interest in Mongolia, so she studies up. Though Julie tries to learn where they live, she fails until her mother helps when Julie needs to return a coat. A very telling happening occurs when Julie cannot get anyone to answer the door. Finally after pounding and pounding, a brother appears to take the coat. Julie sees fear in everyone's face. Poignantly, one brother calls to say goodbye when the authorites find them and send them back to Mongolia.

Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things / Guy Bass 125 p.

Dinkin Dings is scared of EVERYTHING! Here are some of the things he was frightened of on May 19: fairgrounds, cold toast, telephones, whispers, and sisters, every sort of thing from Mars, mutant slime, and lists of things that seem to rhyme. New neighbors and their pony-tailed daughter are definitely zombies in disguise. He assembles his army; the ghost, the skeleton, and the monster that live under his bed, to help him get rid of these zombies. Children will relate to the scrapes Dinkin finds himself in like hitting the zombie mom with an egg intended for the pony-tailed zombie.