A family's sparce Christmas is brightened thanks to the efforts of a special spider.

Miss Spider and her husband go shopping for a car.

While trying to learn how to fly, Squirt accidentally becomes Captain Sunny Patch, the new neighborhood hero.

Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.

When Flo and her mom move into a new apartment, it doesn't take long to realize that there's more than one secret lurking in her new home.

Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boarding House do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece.

Buster, a walnut orb weaving spider, enlists the help of Jo Beth, one of a family of poisonous but friendly brown recluse spiders, to help stop humans who are stealing from the rare books room of the Boston Public Library, where the spiders live.

Millions of spiders are poised to take over the Earth, and it's become obvious that they work as one. Among the government, there is dissent: do we try to kill all of the spiders, or do we gamble on Professor Guyer's theory that we need to kill only the queens? President Stephanie Pilgrim has gone as far as she can: more than two dozen American cities hit with tactical nukes, the country torn asunder. She believes in Professor Guyer... but Ben Broussard...

Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown. But in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted wife, Lenka, whose love, he realizes...