When his mother has car trouble, Zach is afraid that he will be stranded at his grandfather's new apartment with his younger brother, instead of going to his friend's sleepover birthday party.
Having escaped the giants' glass bottle prison, tiny Moth-kins brave the dangers of what seems to be a human playground as they attempt to return to their colony by the river with the aid of their newly developed wings.
In the early 1960's, thirteen-year-old Robin tries, in a variety of ways, to unravel the mystery behind her older sister's dramatic change of personality and attempted suicide.
Erin relates the events of the summer when she and her friend, Heather, discover the "real" Tarzan and she becomes increasingly aware of the family problems caused by her father's drinking.
Several members of a Mothkin family, tiny people less than an inch tall, must escape or die when they are inadvertantly captured by giants and imprisoned in glass bottles used to study plant life.
