Alexander's search for the notebook currently kidnapped by the boss-monster takes a strange twist when he sees his principal acting strangely and he wonders if she could be the monster they're looking for.

Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.

Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared to protect them, but now they learn that they have special powers--and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a prophesied quest to find a magical book.

Despite his friends' teasing, Oscar the caterpillar studies to prepare for becoming a butterfly and migrating to Mexico, so when things do not turn out as he expects, he is still able to make his dream come true.

In a series of amusing comparisons, a boy shows how humans are much more like each other than we are like any other thing on Earth.

Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

"See?" cries the bull. "Uni means one, and corn means horn!" Even his baby picture proves it: he was born with one horn! But as the eager little guy continues his research, a budding identity crisis arises when he realizes he doesn't quite check all the boxes-should a certain lack of moonlight sparkle or silky mane or rainbow poop decide the issue. Perhaps some unexpected encouragement from a pack of "real" unicorns might be just the assurance he...

Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.

Although Soledad and Lucy are returning to the human world to see their families, their work in the Faerieground is not finished--war threatens and Soli is a faerie princess, so her future lies there.

Besides being bullied, Joshua faces one more obstacle in middle school, trying to hide his identity as the son of supervillains, the Dread Duo.