6,000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Tarak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father -- to travel to the Mountain of the World Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.

After returning from captivity and being traded to Norman invaders, Lara and her horse escape and find refuge with nuns whom she teaches to breed horses.

Thorston, an alchemist who has spent his life trying to decipher the secret to immortality contained in the Book Without Words, is on the brink of realizing his dream when he drops dead, leaving Odo, a talking raven, and Sybil, a servant who was about to be sacrificed to Thorston's plan, to reap the rewards of his work.

In the absence of his older brother, the Great Brain, J.D. finds that his own little brain can accomplish feats on a somewhat lesser scale.

While living in Cape Light during the years 1904 to 1906, thirteen-year-old Amanda struggles to obey her widowed father's orders not to see the boy she loves, despite her angry resentment of her parent's courtship of a local widow.

While her father works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her peers.

During a rainy Minneapolis Millers baseball game in 1903, Little Andy Oyler has the chance to become a hero by hitting the shortest and muddiest home run in history.

In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea after seeing her beloved Jaimy with another woman; however, her life takes a dramatic turn when she and her shipmates take command of the ship and she is accused of piracy.

Presents a collection of five short stories featuring "American Girl" Felicity Merriman, who is growing up in Virginia before the Revolutionary War.