A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenage terrorist, a mysterious wish-granting machine, and the world's worst private detective.

The old, dead nuisance /by M.T. Anderson -- Believing in Brooklyn / -- by Matt de la Peña -- The double eagle has landed / by Anthony Horowitz -- Pirate / by Walter Dean Myers -- Thad, the ghost, and me / by Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Pudding / by Jarrett J. Krosoczka -- The snake mafia / by Gennifer Choldenko -- Nate Macavoy, monster hunter / by Bruce Hale -- Boys will be boys / by James Patterson -- Ghost vision glasses / by Patrick Carman.