Returning to the coast after living in the Midwest, Callie's mysterious illness disappears, but when the water near her house begins to call her, she uncovers dangerous family secrets and jeopardizes everything and everyone she holds dear.
Fifth grade is tumultuous for Alice as she tries to help herself and others through the many changes occurring at home and in school, including learning about sex when Rosalind gets her period.
In this thrilling sequel to 'The Stonekeeper', Emily and her brother, Navin, head for Kanalis, a beautiful and mysterious city of waterfalls, where the hope to find the antidote for the poison that has sickened their mother.
Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers.
"Althea and Oliver, who have been friends since age six are now high school juniors, find their friendship changing because he has contracted Kleine-Levin Syndrome".
While his friends Bobby, Joe, and Addie are spending the summer on exciting adventures, thirteen-year-old Skeezie Tookis must get a job and help around the house, and things only get worse when his long-lost father appears.
Although he fears being in the water, sixteen-year-old Dain is determined to be a professional lobsterman, despite pressure from his older brother and widowed mother that he attend college instead, and despite the fact that someone is sabotaging his lobster traps.
