Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance.
Hank and Gus want to investigate the legend that the Ravens Pass city hall was built over a cellar with a witch sealed inside it, and a school field trip seems like the perfect opportunity, but the witch may be waiting for them.
The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is actually full of alien children ready to take over the planet, but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.
The Mills family are planning on moving to Florida, but they soon discover what other people who live in Ravens Pass already know--that this town does not let go of its citizens that easily.
While moving into an apartment in the city with his father and brother, thirteen-year-old Ben meets a mysterious girl about his age who draws him, late at night, into the condemned building next door, where he finds--and is threatened by--two older boys.
Jason and his father are forced to camp on the side of a deserted road when their car breaks down, and when Jason's father disappears, Jason must find the courage to search the nearby woods and help his father.
