A group of children make puppets and a puppet stage and put on a show.

A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret - and a wicked plan. Soon afterwards she receives an invitation to an amusement park where all is not as it seems. Who - or what - is summoning kids to HorrorLand? Britney and her friends must find out fast - or remain trapped forever in the scariest place on Earth!

Trina and Dan think the dummies in the attic are cool but they keep showing up in the strangest places.

Because he wants his mother to continue reading to him at bedtime Grover is reluctant to tell her that he knows how to read.