Nurk, a sort-of brave shrew, packs up a few pairs of clean socks and sails off on an accidental adventure, guided by wisdom found in the journal of his famously brave and fierce grandmother, Lady Surka the warrior shrew.

At his father's funeral, Edward Michael "Em" Goverton notices armed men have shown up, and these armed men follow him home. Em has discovered a five-hundred-year-old prophecy by Nostradamus, and these armed men work for men who are connected to that prophecy. With only a stranger named Victor and a family friend named Charlotte as allies, Em embarks on a quest to uncover a conspiracy and stop the end of the world.

While spending an unexciting weekend at the beach, Noodle and Zeek suddenly find adventure when they discover a gang of thieves trying to steal the hidden treasure from a sunken ship.

Ashley is whisked away from her home by Peter Pan to help the Lost Boys with spring cleaning, but this "Wendy Girl's" love of adventure brings changes that are not enjoyed by all of Neverland's inhabitants.

Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.

After his family is evicted from their Scottish farm, fifteen-year-old Roddy forms an unlikely friendship with a notorious rogue who helps him outwit a tyrant landlord in order to find a family treasure and make his way to America.

"The adventures of three unlikely friends--Dawn, a serious fox, Tobin, a sweet pangolin, and Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider--continue with teamwork, friendship, and humor."--Provided by publisher.

"Agreeing to help the Fantastic Four and Namor find the great underwater city of Atlantis, Spider-Man dives into the Quantum Realm where he discovers he might need more than just superpowers to save the day"--

"Fate intervenes when Ivy is called to the sickbed of a dying duchess and is charged with delivering a mystical (and possibly cursed) diamond necklace to the utterly revolting Matilda Butterfield for her twelfth birthday"--

Hans, a foundling raised by a grave robber, helps Countess Angela Gabriela, nearly thirteen, when she is torn away from her dream of being a professional puppeteer by an evil archduke out to destroy her and her parents.