Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Moghul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life.
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in souther China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets several people to help him repair it.
At Dragonsdale, riding is the most important thing in the world, but Cara, daughter of the stable's Dragonmaster, can only dream of soaring through the skies.
Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, The Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die.