An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him.
Sophie, YL, and Harper, new students in Mrs. TenBroeck's sixth grade class, give each other support as they struggle to survive both in and out of school.
Bullied and unhappy at school, thirteen-year-old Mike, who has always thought that he might be an alien, sends a distress call into space asking to be rescued from the ignorance and cruelty of his life on Earth.
While her father serves his term in a detention center, twelve-year-old Glennis learns that "not all prisons are made out of stone, and spiders aren't the only ones who can weave webs.".
Marshall thinks the old-fashioned snow globe he found at the World O' Stuff will make a perfect Christmas present for his mother, but when he goes to show the gift to his friend Simon, the two boys become trapped in the globe's miniature village in the midst of a never-ending blizzard.
Four aliens, studying to become interplanetary diplomats on Planetoid Roma, travel to Earth after discovering a wormhole that leads to the planet, and become involved in a quest to find 175 mission specialists who disappeared during a diplomatic mission long ago.
Twelve-year-old Kendall, half Anglo and half Acoma, discovers his heritage and his destiny as a runner when he visits his great-grandfather's pueblo and finds a culture he used to hear about from his deceased mother.
Danny and his monster friends must solve the mystery resulting when the eye falls out of a weird statue of a dinosaur. Ghost dinosaurs run through the bedroom and Dinosaur Bog begins to drain.
