When eleven-year-old Vanessa discovers an abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories, thinking maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand why she and her relationships are the way they are.
Loving to smear, splatter and splash, Olive Chen, whose parents are serious artists who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes, glides through town, painting what she wants, until she reaches her parents' pristine art museum.
Thirteen-year-old Rosie and the League of Witch Hunters, joined by a gaggle of the world's last ghosts, cross the galaxy in search of the Museum of Imagined Things, the last treasure the Nothing King wants before dragging everything into oblivion.
In a world where paper is obsolete, twelve-year-old Lydia must solve the disappearance of her parents, save her home and the Paper Museum, and repair her relationship with her best friend before her town descends into chaos and everything is lost.