After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions.
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
The two sets of Starbuck twins use their telepathic powers and the aid of some endangered dolphins to help their father catch a gang dumping toxic waste in the Florida Keys.
Four young owls taken from their parents and placed in a purported orphanage--really a training camp--must learn to fly in order to escape and protect the owl world from evil.
