Brother Bear learns about fear and getting back in the saddle when a ghost haunts the riding academy. Both Brother Bear's fear of horses and Sister Bear's fear of ghosts need to be overcome when Miss Maud's Riding Academy, where they are taking riding lessons, turns out to be haunted.

At Prunella's half-birthday party, her sister unveils a fortune-telling cootie catcher that seems to be able to predict the future.

When Arthur finds Sue Ellen's lost diary at the library, he wonders whether or not to read it before he returns it to her.

Brother and Sister Bear don't realize the problems they will face when they agree to help Professor Actual Factual's super-smart nephew fit in at school. When Professor Actual Factual's nephew Ferdy comes to town, the cubs try to make him feel at home--but he's a stuck-up nerd! Then Ferdy realizes that he needs the cubs, and everyone learns to respect one another for their own special talents.

When Arthur and his friends ride their bikes to school, Francine is embarrassed by her hand-me-down bicycle, but when Francine reports that the bike is stolen, her friends rally to find the thief. Will Arthur and his friends discover the true fate of Francine's bike?

Farmer Ben takes a dim view of the cubs' plan to hold a Halloween Festival to help save his floundering family farm, and the situation is complicated when a couple of Ben's dead ancestors show up.

With the help of Sister's ballet teacher, Brother Bear conquers his fear of dancing and can ask his favorite girl cub to the school dance.

Mr. Dweebish, the new teacher at the Bear Country School, tries to explain to the class bully how democracy works.

Ms. Frizzle takes the kids on a field trip in the Magic School Bus to learn about bones and skeletons at the HughMann Costume Company.

When the director of Camp Grizzmeyer tries to keep the boys and girls away from each other, he makes an interesting discovery.