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Amy's younger brother Arnie has always been unpleasant, but Amy's parents don't seem to care. When she has a slumber party for her birthday, he goes out of his way to ruin whatever he can, but there are bigger problems, too-- Amy sees a monster with red eyes and black quills in the house, and she's worried that the monster will attack her friends. This is especially worrisome after the monster gets into the over and leaves quills on the pizza. There are other problems in Amy's house as well; both of her parents have been out of work, and her mother wants her to be nice to a classmate neither she nor her best friend Lissa like very much because Marta's dad might have a job for her. Arnie continues to get in trouble, cutting off a classmate's ponytail, dumping insects into the girls' cake batter, and writing a rude word on Amy's forehead while she is sleeping... on the night before picture day. Amy, already stressed by her parents' situation and the thought of having to sell their house, continues to see monsters around the neighborhood, but few others seem to notice them. When Arnie has a birthday party, the girls decide to exact revenege for his myriad idiocies. After seeing a You Tube video about slime, they mix up a giant batch and dump it on him at his party! It has horrible consequences. Luckily, the family is able to turn this around and use Arnie's situation to solve their money problems.