During summer break, Christina, Grant, and their two friends Zac and Alex go to Alaska with Mimi and Papa. Mimi inherited a gold mine so they all learn about the Gold Rush era and Forty-Niners.
Connie and Col band together to save the world for all creatures--including the mythical ones of which few humans are aware--from the shape-shifter Kullervo's army and, along the way, Connie finds herself transformed in an amazing way.
An abridged retelling of the Margaret Sidney story in which a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
Eleven-year-old Jack suffers terrible headaches as he worries that his grandmother will soon die, his mother's boyfriend will move in--or leave--and especially that the school bully will get revenge for Jack's ill-timed joke at his expense.
