Conrad Jarrett, a teenager recovering from a suicide attempt after his older brother Buck drowned in a boating accident, finally accepts that the death was not his fault with help from his psychiatrist, Dr.

Bean, the tiny genius from the streets of Rotterdam who served as Ender Wiggin’s second-in-command, retells the events of Ender’s Game from his perspective.

Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, whose father was taken away in disgrace, discover he was falsely imprisoned for selling state secrets.

In the Mowgli stories of The Jungle Book, Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, kills the tiger Shere Khan with the help of a buffalo stampede and lays its skin on the Council Rock.

Juan “Johnnie” Rico, who joined the Mobile Infantry to fight the alien Arachnids (“Bugs”), becomes an officer commanding his own platoon, Rico’s Roughnecks.

Matt Hallowell, a twelve-year-old left alone to guard his family’s cabin in the Maine wilderness in 1768, is befriended by Attean, a Penobscot boy who teaches him to survive.

Kira, a gifted weaver with a twisted leg, learns that the Council of Guardians keeps her and other artists in comfort only to control their talents and shape the village’s history.

In this alternate sequel to Hatchet, Brian Robeson is not rescued at the end of summer and must survive the brutal Canadian winter alone.

Louis, a trumpeter swan born without a voice, learns to read and write and to play a stolen trumpet his father took from a music shop.

Sam Gribley, a boy who ran away from his crowded New York City home to live alone in the Catskill Mountains in a hollow tree, becomes famous after newspapers write about the “wild boy.” At the end of his second year, his whole family arrives to live with him, and his father plans to build a house, ending Sam’s solitary life in the wild.