Paul Stewart

Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.

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.

An unbonded knight traveling as a "free lance" meets more than his share of trouble when he signs on with Lord Big Nose to recover a crown from the Lake of Skulls.

When heavy rains arrive, Rabbit, a day creature, gets his wish to spend more time with his friend Hedgehog, who usually sleeps during the day.

Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.

In his continuing adventures, the unbound knight Free Lance--with the help of his new squire, Wormrick--tries to save a lady of the court from a disastrous marriage by defying a treacherous lord who wants him to intentionally lose a jousting tournament.

"Cade Quarter is on the run - wanted for the crimes of an uncle he has never even met. With nowhere else to go, he sneaks onto the Xanth Filatine, a forbidding skyship bound for the city of Hive. But he is soon forced to abandon ship for the harsh lands of the mighty Deepwoods. Cade must build a new life amongst flesh-eating bloodoak trees, fearsome goblin tribes and monstrous lake creatures. And most mysterious of all, a strange, half-formed giant...

When Ella enters her dog, Hot Dog, in the school fair's competition, she finds that her pet has a creative approach to the commands she gives him.

Ryan goes on vacation to the mountain village of Oberdorf and is unaware that he might trigger a curse created by a powerful sorcerer Magoria, who was conducting experiments in an attempt to harness time.