Eleven-year-old Max partners with an unusual girl, Rose, who shares his appreciation of the silver owls that the High Echelon wants to destroy, and together they make a perilous journey seeking to fulfill a prophecy.
When they become the guardians of a talking doll that is actually the reincarnated Oracle of Delphi, three youngsters soon discover how difficult their task will be.
On the way home from school, teenage Noriko is transported to a magical but dangerous world, where she is befriended by Izark, a rogue swordsman within whom, unbeknownst to her, an evil lurks that only she can awaken.
The Bob-Whites, plus their friends from Iowa, add detective work to their New York City sightseeing trip after Trixie helps a stranger and receives, as thanks, a purse containing a cryptic prophecy and a promise of great fortune.
