Weird stuff keeps happening to 12 year old Johnny Maxwell. He becomes part of a video game, tries to save mankind from the Galactic Hordes, and finds out that the local bag lady is a time traveler.
Johnny Maxwell acquires the neighborhood homeless woman's shopping cart when she is injured, discovers that its contents have the ability to send him back in time to 1941 England, and has to decide if he should warn the townspeople about the impending German bomb attack.
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
Tiffany, a young witch-to-be in the land of Discworld, teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue toughs, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.
"The Munrungs cross the Carpet to find a new home after their village is destroyed by the powerful and mysterious natural force Fray"--Provided by publisher.
A tsunami destroys everything leaving Mau, an island boy, Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, and a small group of refugees responsible for rebuilding their village and their lives.
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.