After three shadows appear outside their home, Louis flees with Joachim, leaving his wife, Lise, and their simple farm life behind to escape fate and save his son's life.
Thirteen-year-old Whitman has to deal with the anger he feels towards his father when his parents separate, his own interest in several girls, and the heady feeling of acting in his first play.
In 1920 in the mountains of western North Carolina, fourteen-year-old Jim Houston sees his hopes of continuing his education fade when his mother becomes seriously ill and his logger father must deal with the underhanded dealings of outside businessmen.
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
After his Mayan adventures, Josh returns to Oxford to resume his normal life, but it soon becomes clear that he cannot escape destiny as he realizes his father's death was no accident and his closest allies may not be trustworthy.
Fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
Simon St. George and his father, the last members of the Order of Dragonhunters, must join forces with a group of Japanese samurai to destroy the dragons in the Far East.
Fanny, the Great Zandini's daughter, hopes to use her conjuring powers to follow in her father's footsteps, but her father wants her brother to take over the family tradition instead.
