In the mid-eighteen hundreds, while serving as cook's apprentice on his uncle's schooner with his pet monkey, Allie, twelve-year-old Ray discovers that they are transporting a fugitive slave to the free north.
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
In nineteenth-century New York City, teenaged Leung promises not to compete in bareknuckle boxing matches until he fixes his sloppy technique, but when his uncle's gambling debts get out of control, Leung must enter the ring to save him.
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.
Head Rider Willow is sent on a mission to Arlen to bring a healing elixir to Lord Gildenfair, her uncle, whom she hates because she believes he ruined her family--but the Unicorn Riders arrive to find Arlen is under attack, and Willow must confront her past and find a way to save the city.
Courtney Crumrin must face the Coven of Mystics, the town's most powerful warlocks and witches, in a search for the true mastermind behind a series of horrible disturbances.
Mary, the teenage daughter of famous mutineer Fletcher Christian, has spent years wondering if he is alive and where he might be, so when she hears rumors that he has returned to London, she is determined to find him.
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
