Twelve-year-old Elizabeth resents being sent to stay on a small Maine island after the arrival of her new baby brother, but the time she spends with her artist grandmother and an unusual young neighbor help her to see things differently.
Twelve-year-old Roo Fanshaw, who has a talent for hiding, is sent to live with her estranged uncle in his on Cough Rock Island, where she discovers the secrets of the largely uninhabited house and its hidden garden.
Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides out on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him.
With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.
Becca has often spent time with her parents at her grandmother's cabin by the sea, but with her mother expecting a baby, she begins visiting on her own and by the time her new sibling arrives, has stored up a season full of friends and adventures.
Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily return to Lonely Island to save their friend, Fafnyr, a three-headed dragon, from being captured by a rich man who wants to put the creature on display.
