Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
Mandy and her friend James, assisted by Blackie the labrador retriever, help Mandy's grandmother save the village hospital from being closed and, at the same time, save the lives of a newborn lamb and their young neighbor Jenny.
Adhering to her parents' policy of not permitting wild animals to stay in their veterinary hospital, Mandy finds a "halfway house" for her rescued hedgehogs where they can rehabiltate before returning to the wild.
Pod, Homily, and Arietty, the six-inch high people, go down the drain in a soap box on their way to the model village, where borrowing should be more profitable.
When a bitter winter threatens starvation to the people of Rin who set out for the coast, Rowan and several others stay behind for various reasons and are led to a startling discovery about their people's past.
