Princess Tania travels outside of the Immortal Realm to seek a cure for the plague afflicting her people while joined in spirit with all of the children of Aurealis to weave a web of protection over the Faerie realm.
On the eve of the French and Indian War, Billy Bartram and his naturalist father travel into the American wilderness in an airship--pursued by a party of French soldiers and haunted by a terrifying bear-wolf--on a quest to find the lost kingdom of the Welsh prince Madoc.
When his sister Helise leaves home to search for their father, who believes him to be calling for her in spite of the fact that he is dead, William follows her, with the aid of a knight and an enchanted goat, and faces many hazards along a strange path that may lead him to his sister and possibly his father as well.
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father.
After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gipsea" boy Tuck, tries to find land at the top of the world that will be safe from storms and rising water.
In shock and unable to speak after being in a car accident in Oregon which killed his parents, seventeen-year-old Adam journeys across the country to his home in Rhode Island.
Discusses explorers and their discoveries throughout history, covering Viking voyages, Chinese explorers, Marco Polo, Ibn Batt?ta, the Portuguese and other European adventurers, journeys to the poles, and other related topics.
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to her cousin Abigail.