A kindergarten-level introduction to teachers, covering their job description, the places where they work, and how they help the community by using their instructional skills.
Pablo, nearly ten, has many questions about his origins and how he arrived at Isla as a baby, but finding the answers may mean losing his lifetime companion, Birdy the parrot.
As the children of two world-famous explorers, eleven-year-old twins Celia and Oliver prefer television-watching to adventure-seeking until their father takes them to Tibet to help search for their long-lost mother.
When her mother was killed fourteen years ago, Olivia's father disappeared, and became the prime suspect, now, it is discovered that he was murdered as well, and Olivia must track down the killer before she becomes the next victim.
Katie Rose, taken in by the Stevenses after the death of her parents, dreams of escaping the hard work and dreariness of her life by going to live with her uncle in the west, but her outlook changes when Mr. Stevens brings home a wild Mustang that becomes the focus of Katie's existence.
Gaia succeeds in leading her people to Wharfton and the Enclave, but rebellion there threatens them all just when everything they have dreamed of seems to be at hand.
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
