While preparing for her participation in a wedding, adjusting to being a student at a school for the arts, and dealing with surprise visitors at home, twelve-year-old Olivia ventures into the New York City subway tunnels in search of a man who might help her friend Frannie.
As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.
In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
Fourth-grader Ophelia Peeler has always felt that she was just like Dorothy in Oz, skipping down the yellow brick road, until a move to Oregon, away from her best friend, sends her on a different path.
Toward the end of her sixth-grade year, Abby is enjoying success in class and on the track team, until she starts reading her horoscope and starts having troubles.
Meggie learns that her father's gift of being able to bring to life people and things he reads about in books has been passed on to her and tries to use the power to rescue her mother, who was pulled into the pages of a fantasy novel when Meggie was a child.
After getting lost in the barrier islands off the coast of Georgia, a boy and girl discover that the only way they can get home is by finding Eyesocket Island, a piece of land only visible by air.
Tim and Telly are frantic when they receive a message that their parents, doctors for the Center for Disease Control, have been quarantined due to an outbreak of Ebola in Zaire, and their efforts to somehow get from Georgia to Africa seem to be aided by a couple of ghosts.
An orphan named Terry goes to spend the summer with his aunt on an old haunted plantation near Savannah, Georgia, where he encounters the ghost of a young Confederate soldier and a young slave.
