As her time comes to depart, the sacred snow leopard who brought the stars to life searches for a replacement whose song can protect the Mergich Realm from the soldiers coming in search of slaves and gold.
While hunting for rare and endangered species with her uncle in the Himalayas, fourteen-year-old Paris learns about humanity and friendship from Tahr, a twelve-year-old Buddhist monk who is trying to protect a young yeti.
A snow leopard and her cubs have been separated from their territory by an avalanche in the Himalaya Mountains, and it is up to Ben and Zoe to find the rare cats and guide them to safety before the local villagers poison them.
In this fifth volume of the fictional biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Prince Siddhartha undergoes hardship and ordeals in his search for enlightenment.
John and Philippa Gaunt, expecting their lives to return to normal after their mother gives up her djinn powers, are drawn into a desperate quest to find five fakirs who hold the keys to the world's fate after its luck tips wildly out of balance.
In alternating chapters, twelve-year-old Orrie and her older brother tell the story of a doomed mountain-climbing expedition in which they, their younger brother, their divorced father, and his girlfriend attempt to climb Island Peak in Nepal.