Searching for his missing lucky "dreamstone" and the answers to some mysteries surrounding it, Runner, one of the swiftest Tiddi scouts, ventures into the northern Icelands and the grim mountain fortress of Gzel.
A collection of twenty-seven Native American tales of the Southeast, including trickster tales, "how and why" stories, and stories of the supernatural.
Just after moving into their grandmother's house in Pittsburgh, the five Smith children must uncover a long-standing scam to steal the houses of old people before Grandma Smith loses her home.
In 1842, eleven-year-old twins, whose father runs a boat on the Juniata Canal in Pennsylvania, learn of a Harrisburg bookseller's plan to steal Charles Dickens's newly finished novel while Dickens himself is touring the U.S.
A Sixteen-year-old Progidy uses his mentor's invention to go into the past to exorcise his unreturned love for a beautiful girl, and discovers a mystery involving another of the professor's inventions.
Though two boys are paying attention to her, a seventeen-year-old in East Liverpool, Ohio, is painfully shy until she discovers in herself the eye, hand, and heart of a potter.
The year is 1758 and Jamesina Mackenzie has been living quietly in the Scottish highlands. Her father dies and she goes into hiding. Disguised as a boy she is kidnapped by men who kidnap young people to sell as bond slaves to planters and farmers in America.
As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.
