When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.

Meet Ottoline Brown and her best friend Mr. Munroe. No puzzle is too tricky for the two of them to solve. A string of daring burglaries has taken place in Big City, and precious lapdogs are disappearing. Who is behind this crime wave? Can Ottoline and Mr. Munroe come up with a clever plan?

Thirteen-year-old Twig learns he was abandoned at birth and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.

Undertown is destroyed! Gnokgoblins, waifs and cloddertrogs huddle by the ruins, preparing for a mass exodus to a new home in the Free Glades. Rook Barkwater, a young librarian knight, knows the journey will be full of peril. Dangers are everywhere - vengeful shrykes, wild muglums and poisonous blow-holes, while in th Goblin Nations, the tribes are massing for war. Can Rook and his friend withstand the onslaught and preserve freedom in the Edgeworld?...

Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.

In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.