People play a variety of games involving balls on the big ball that is Earth.

On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

Teenage Gaia, born without the fear gene, gets herself into more and more danger when she consistently chooses "dare" in a game of Truth or Dare with Ed and Mary, who hope the game will tell them some about Gaia's mysterious past.

When Darryl, a twelve-year-old orphan, is adopted by a technology genius, he finds himself the star of his very own life-threatening video game.

At the Mud Flat Olympics, if the animals don't win the Deepest Hole Contest, the All-Snail High Hurdles, or the River-Cross Freestyle, they can still come to the picnic after the games and have ice cream for dessert.

Violet teams up with a fairy named Sprite to trick fourteen fairies who have escaped from their realm and send them back home before they can cause more trouble.

A new cops-and-crooks computer game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Now the game's designer, Grace, and her oddball programmers must rethink their game to deduce the killer's next target.

Collects L. J. Smith's "The Hunter," "The Chase," and "The Kill," in which Jenny and her friends begin a game that puts them at the mercy of Julian, the Prince of Shadows, who will force each player to face their phobias, but Jenny quickly learns that death in the game equates death in reality.

Friends Brian and Gregory have survived the Game of Sunken Places, but are once again drawn back to cousin Prudence's house in Vermont, where they discover that something has gone very wrong with time, people have disappeared, and danger is lurking everywhere.