A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.

In rhyming text, a school bus describes its busy day transporting children to and from school.

When the other children on the school bus run away, a little girl wonders if there was a monster on the bus.

"There's just one rule on Sid's bus: no fuss. But then the children and animals climb on board, things get out of control! This story includes age-appropriate text and a reading comprehension activity to support emerging readers"--

Cousins Dante, Malia, and Ivan are happy to be back in their home town. But then their school bus takes a wrong turn and they end up on 13th Street! There are new monsters to fight -- fire-breathing ferrets. At least they have their friend Susana and their bus driver to help them. Will the gang ever make it to their first day of class?

Twelve-year-old Jordan and his friend Evan are picked up by a different school bus, driven by a shadowy figure, a bus where all the other children are bizarrely deformed, except for one girl at the back, and when the children see their reflections in thedirty windows they start to scream--but what will happen when they get off the bus at school?

Aaron can barely see anything without his glasses, which he just stepped on, so when he sees a monster crawl out from under the hood of the bus and begin to tear the engine apart he can not understand why none of the other children can see it--terrified he forces the bus to stop, but when he gets off things only get worse.

Black Creek middle school football players are happy after a win at a rival school, but the bus that picks them up for the trip home is not the same as the one that brought them, and it is driven by a shadowy figure behind a plastic wall--but when the busstops to pick up a passenger it turns out to be their dead coach and the terrified team does not know if he there to doom or save them from the School Bus of Horrors.