When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
A chance photograph taken for the school Camera Club draws Charlie into the emotionally troubled lives of his classmate Jennifer's family, especially that of her younger brother who harbors an astounding secret.
Seventy-year-old Sir Magnus, grandfather of a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, has a premonition that all of them will soon die and that they will return to being lifeless and useless.
While spending the summer of 1940 on a farm in the English countryside to escape wartime London, fourteen-year-old Ellie falls in love with a handsome Austrian refugee and faces a conflict of loyalties when he reveals that he is sympathetic to the German enemy.
The Mennyms, a family of life-size rag dolls living in a house in England and pretending to be human, continue to fear that their secret will be discovered by the outside world.
Sent to America from England at age seven to escape war-torn England, Rusty returns five years later to go to a strict English boarding school and renew her relationship with her family, who now seem like strangers to her.
