Hyperion chapters

Young Alison, dreaming of having her own wings, tries to find a way to fly.

Lucy wants to impress Maya, the exotic new girl at school, so that she will choose Lucy to be her best friend.

Scott helps his best friend Andy learn how to follow the rules in second grade so that he will not get in trouble.

Although he wants to track down the Tooth Gremlin, Jesse has to read three books by Friday, or his class cannot go on a field trip.

When Zachary loses his oldest toy and first friend, he searches for it behind the couch where he discovers a wonderful, imaginary world.

Kate, who lives in a lighthouse and often dreams that she is a mermaid, has a chance to rescue two real mermaids one stormy night.

When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, ten-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him and the two set out to find a way to use Lowe's balloon to help the North.