Snyder, Maria V

After leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced to continue her leadership role and must help her people face a threat from outside their cube.

In "Inside Out", Trella, a scrub whose life consists of cleaning for the socially superior Uppers, finds her peaceful life disturbed when she encounters a prophet who promises a better life for her people and ends up in the middle of a rebellion. In "Outside In," after leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced tocontinue her leadership role and must help her people face athreat from outside their cube.

Apprentice magician and glassmaker Opal Cowen is called upon to help when someone sabotages the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs resulting in the deaths of several powerful magicians, and when her efforts fail, she taps into a new kind of magic that challenges her to control powers she did not know she possessed.

Yelena, able to capture and release souls, is awaiting word of her fate from the Council when she learns of a planned uprising against her homeland by a past enemy, and sets out--with hopes of reuniting her beloved--to prove herself and save the land she loves.

Despite gaining her freedom and being reunited with the family she was stolen from, Yelenda feels isolated in her new life, unable to relate to her new friends and relatives because of her past and struggling to find a place where she fits in.

Yelena, hours away from execution for murdering a general's son, is offered a reprieve in exchange for becoming the food taster for the Commander of Ixia, and although freed from life in the dungeon, she remains bound by Valek--the Commander's head of security, who gives her daily antidote medication--and by her own uncontrollable magic powers.

"The youngest son in a family of search-and-rescue dog trainers, Luke must face his deathly fear of storms to prove that he and the dog he's training belong in the family business"--Back cover.

Trella, a laborer in the lower level of a world that is socially and physically divided, spies on the people living in the upper level by traveling through the pipes of the environmental control system and accidently becomes the lead in a revolution while trying to help a friend find a gateway to the outside world.