Twelve-year-old Aldo Zelnick receives a sketchbook from his grandma and fills it with drawings that recount his adventures with his friends, including their efforts to find a diamond ring with a thousand dollar reward.
As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.
Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.
Explores some of the workings and manifestations of the inner mind, discussing dreams, creativity, altered states of consciousness, extra-sensory perception, and the mind-body connection.
