The Skinner Boys

A mysterious thief has disturbed the ancient and mystical Matenga Urn. This in turn has awakened the Skelevore monsters that protect it and the fireflies that are within it - which magnify the fear of anyone who holds the Urn. The boys and Tara must overcome their greatest fears magnified in order to return the Urn to its alter and turn the Skelevores back into the vines that they came from.

An ancient and malevolent Viking spirit is unleashed by Obsidian Stone who is determined to rule the world by controlling all the ice. Soon an Inuit village is terrorised by ice sculptures that come to life and an icebreaker ship is thrown form the frozen sea by the evil spirit.

Edward takes one of Seven of the Drums of Doom to improve his drumming, but disaster awaits all the Skinners when they return the drum to the volcano island from where it came. Soon they are captured by Obsidian Stone's evil henchmen and the drums are stolen. Will they stop Stone and his henchmen from using the drums to control the world by broadcasting their beat over every single computer?

When the Skinner family goes on a well-deserved holiday to a brand new resort in the Caribbean, they find all the guests and staff arguing. Everyone and everything seems to be in a state of conflict, including the weather. The Skinner kids need to recover an ancient artefact, the Rixa Ruby, which was disturbed during the construction of the resort, to restoring peace on the islands.

The Skinners are shrunk to centimetres tall by the power of the 'Eye of the Golden Snake'. To catch the thief of this ancient Chinese artefact and restore themselves to their original size, they must ride Edward's pet mongoose, Neville, through a speeding train in China, and fight a sea of slithering snakes. All the kids have at hand is a wok, some cooking oil and their teen audacity.

A runaway train manned by cowboy ghost Calvin Calhoun and his hoard of stolen gold races across the desert plains - the result of an ancient curse placed on the gold by the Native Americans it was stolen from. While Charles, Tara and Edward become mesmerised by the shining gold, Henry is immune because of his sunnies.

When the Skinner kids help a magician who claims to have had an important key stolen from him, it all turns out to be a big trick. As soon as they arrive at the Castle of the Lost, in Germany, he sets back the hands of the Clock of Alemon, an ancient clock that controls time itself. That way he can turn to a time when he would again be the world's greatest magician.

When Henry breaks an old mirror in the attic, the gateway to the 5th dimension is opened up and the Skinner Mansion is filled with mischievous ghosts, from Cleopatra to Genghis Kahn to Julius Caesar. And all they seem to want to do is make mischief and party! Can the kids repair the mirror or will they themselves be sucked into the ghostly 5th dimension?

While on a beach holiday in Scotland, the Skinners are puzzled by strange goings on in the sea. They soon learn that a small boy has removed an artefact The Eye of the Squid from a sunken pirate ship and as a result sea creatures are mutating and attacking people.

The Skinners travel to Coober Pedy to find a precious Fire Opal, which has the power to bring out both good and evil in those who hold it. As soon as they have the stone, they are chased through the crumbling labyrinth of mines by angry miners, the skeleton of a giant wombat, and the evil Obsidian Stone. Worse.will Charles succumb to the forces of evil that the stone brings out in him?

When a precious artefact goes missing from Grandpa Skinner's collection, and a new friend of the Skinners is kidnapped, the kids find themselves on a race to the Fountain of Youth, with their uber-enemy, Obsidian Stone. The young heroes manage to outwit the carnivorous plants they encounter on the way, but will youth prevail over evil genius?

When the original notebook of the Grimm Brothers is found, the Skinners must investigate the strange appearance of various fairy tale characters. The kids use their wits to overcome the Uber-wolf, the wicked witch, a karate-chopping granny and an odd little girl named Gretyl, before they get to the bottom of the mystery.

When a butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings will it really cause a cyclone? In this jungle adventure the young heroes grapple with Hic the Chameleon in his holographic body suit who seeks to steal the butterfly, as well as huge stone guardians of the temple in which it rests. Luckily Edward's latest magic trick comes in handy at the right moment.

The kids are off on a mission in Africa where they must return a banana-shaped lodestone to an ape. They are befuddled until Wellington explains to them that the ape is Magnon, an old friend of their grandfather's. He can talk and he is from a lost world that Grandpa Skinner was searching for all his life.

On Halloween Tara dresses in an old cape she finds in the attic. What everyone at the Skinner Mansion soon learns is it's actually an artefact, which gradually turns Tara into a real, fire-breathing dragon. But having a dragon around is fortuitous when Obsidian Stone attacks the Skinner mansion from above, in an airship and attempts to steal the entire Skinner artefact collection using a magnet.

Obsidian Stone kidnaps mum, Julia Skinner, and holds her to ransom in exchange for an artefact, the Bracelet of Invisibility. Despite Henry being invisible, Stone is not fooled and the kids' clever plan to bust her out ends in them all being captured and held on his submarine.

When Edward and Henry use one of Grandpa's artefacts, the Crystal of Creation, to create tiny insect monsters to play with, one of the creatures grows unexpectedly big and turns nasty. In their fright, the Crystal gets broken. Before Charles is eaten by the hungry monster, Tara must use another artefact, the Ring of Dimensions, to physically enter one of Grandpa Skinner's old films.

Evil megalomaniac, Obsidian Stone, brings the mummified Egyptian Prince, Nakthi, back to life so he can damn the Nile with upside down pyramids and thereby prove he is the most powerful man on Earth. But he is as short-sighted as he is greedy. He doesn't count on the pesky Skinners tricking him, by dressing Henry as the mummy, and foiling his megalomaniacal scheme.

The evil Block Topper uses an artefact, a mole whistle, to control an underworld of mole-like mutants. He uses them to build a huge digging machine in the labyrinth of sewers beneath London. His villainous goal? To kidnap the Queen! And with her, to control the world! When they try to stop him, the Skinners get chased through pipes of slime by mutant moles and hairmen.

The Skinner kids are urgently summoned to a Louisiana Museum where the curator has accidentally turned some school children and their teacher into mindless 'Swampies' using a swamp doll artefact! After chasing the creatures through the crocodile infested bayou, Henry is turned into a Swampie too, and poor Tara is crowned as Swampie Queen!

While lost in a ghost Town in the American west, two backpackers discover the 'Lantern of Truth', which causes one of their shadows to come to life and terrorize them. The Skinners are alerted to the trouble via Tara's vision and it's mission on! Unfortunately, Edward's shadow also comes to life, and it's a very hot headed and dangerous shadow.

The Skinner's faithful butler, Wellington, appears to go bad, stealing an artefact. The Skinner kids give chase to their elusive butler, across the globe, ending up in an ice cave in the Himalayas, where they also encounter Obsidian Stone. Has Wellington betrayed them and arranged to sell a precious artefact to their nemesis?

When the Jeweled Skull of Acalan is removed from its resting place in an ancient temple, it starts to bring the dead back to life. These skeletons start to assume the bodies of the living, so our heroes have to return the skull before the skeletons assume their own bodies, too. Even trickier, how will they tell the real dead from the pretend dead in Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' celebration parade?

While camping, Charles and Tara fall into a sinkhole where they stumble on the ancient Venoroc, a giant wasp with a crocodile's head. According to Grandpa Skinner's journal, the only way to tame the beast is to put it to sleep with the scent of a Blood Blossom.

In a small monastery in the mystic mountains of Tibet, evil Obsidian Stone tricks the Skinner kids and steals Tara's amulet. However, when he tries to use it to see the future for his own evil purposes, he soon discovers that it doesn't work. That's because Tara is the precious artefact, not her amulet. Who knew? No one is more surprised than her cousins, the Skinner boys.