Mrs. Pollifax is on loan to her retired CIA friend Farrell. Her mission is to the Middle East: to smuggle out of Jordan the final manuscript of the dissident Iraqi novelist Dib Assen, who was recently murdered.

Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.

The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.

Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.

The citizens of Chester's Mill, Maine, find their relationships strained and lives in danger after an inexplicable force field develops around the town, cutting it off from the outside world and resulting in a power struggle between local politician and drug lord Big Jim Rennie, who enjoys the idea of dominating an isolated populace, and people who disagree with Jim and want to investigate the origins of the dome.

Former Texas Ranger Cole McGee is condemned to hunt the undead across the plains and return them to Hell, but when something escapes, the Devil offers McGee redemption in exchange for its apprehension.

Stella Silver, a white college student, is horrified when she witnesses people from her Birmingham, Alabama community rejoicing over the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and is drawn into the struggle for civil rights, which brings her in touch with people not only of different races, but dangerously different opinions.

"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...