Stewart, Paul

Describes judo fundamentals and covers the essential techniques for throwing, grappling, choking, and armlocks.

Joe Jefferson suddenly turns into a fearless warrior-hero while walking his dog one night, and is summoned by Muddle Earth's leading wizard to slay ogres, wrestle dragons, and bravely confront villains.

Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.

Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.

Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.

Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.

In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Rook, a young librarian-knight, joins with other rebels in an effort to defeat the evil Vox, once Most High Academe and now a puppet ruler in New Sanctaphrax, who is scheming to take control of the Edge.

Rabbit and Hedgehog celebrate their birthdays together.

Nate Quarter is forced to flee for the city of Great Glade, where he joins forces with a small band of friends to search for the life-giving waters of the mystical Riverrise spring, which is guarded by a mysterious waif.