The Motorcycle Boy, Rusty-James’s idolized older brother, breaks into a pet store to free the Siamese fighting fish, carries them to the river and is shot dead by a police officer.

Phineas, called Finny, breaks his leg a second time after falling down the school stairs when he learns that his friend Gene shook the tree branch that caused his first fall.

Eileen Dunlop helps her glamorous new coworker Rebecca after Rebecca kidnaps the mother of a boy at the prison where they work, a mother who allowed her son to be abused.

Trevor is stabbed and killed while trying to stop a fight at school.

After the Wizard is exposed as an ordinary man from Omaha and accidentally floats away in his balloon without her, Dorothy travels to Glinda, the Good Witch of the South.

At the trial of the Knave of Hearts, Alice grows to full size, calls the royal court “nothing but a pack of cards” and is attacked by them.

After her memory returns, Alice Love understands why her marriage to Nick fell apart, but she also remembers why she loved him.

Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad sneak into Toad Hall through a secret tunnel and drive out the weasels and stoats who took it over.

After living among the wise, rational horses called Houyhnhnms, Lemuel Gulliver is forced to leave and returns to England, where he can no longer stand the company of humans.

During the Siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov and the charming deserter Kolya find a dozen eggs for a colonel’s daughter’s wedding cake, but Kolya is shot on the way back and dies.