Jeffrey “Maniac” Magee, the legendary orphan runner who crossed the racial divide of the town of Two Mills, finally accepts a home with Amanda Beale’s Black family in the East End after running away from it.
Roy Eberhardt and his friends stop the Mother Paula’s pancake house chain from building over a nesting site of protected burrowing owls in Coconut Cove, Florida.
Reynie, Sticky, Kate and Constance, the four gifted children recruited by Mr.
Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow decode the instructions left by the city’s Builders and escape the dying underground city of Ember by boat through a river tunnel.
The Walker children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, who camped on an island in the Lake District and sailed the dinghy Swallow, win their “war” with the Blackett sisters, the Amazons, when Titty captures the Amazon boat at night.
Gus McCrae dies of an infection after being wounded in an attack, and Woodrow Call carries his body from Montana back to Texas to bury it.
Meggie, who has inherited her father Mo’s power to read characters out of books, uses words written by the author Fenoglio to destroy the Shadow, which kills the villain Capricorn instead.
Scipio, the “Thief Lord” who leads a gang of runaway children in Venice, rides a magic merry-go-round and becomes an adult.
Tristran Thorn learns he is the son of a Faerie princess and the rightful heir of Stormhold.
