Turtle Wexler wins the Westing game by realizing that Sam Westing is still alive and had been playing three other identities: Barney Northrup, Sandy McSouthers and Julian Eastman.

The narrator ends in his underground hideout, deciding that he will come out and take part in society.

Melanie dies, Rhett leaves Scarlett, and Scarlett decides to win him back, thinking that tomorrow is another day.

After living alone on San Nicolas Island for about eighteen years, Karana leaves on a ship that has come to take her to the mainland.

Clay leaves Los Angeles at the end of his winter break and returns to college in New Hampshire, after seeing his friend Julian sell himself to pay drug debts and watching his circle drift into ever more disturbing behaviour.

Pinocchio, the wooden puppet carved by the poor woodcarver Geppetto, finally becomes a real boy after he works hard to care for his sick father and gives his savings to help the Fairy with Turquoise Hair.

The boy narrator, turned into a mouse by the Grand High Witch, uses her own formula to turn every witch in England into mice at a hotel dinner.

Matilda Wormwood uses her telekinetic powers to scare the cruel headmistress Miss Trunchbull into fleeing the school, and Miss Honey gets back her family home and fortune.

The diary ends with the teenage narrator feeling hopeful and deciding she no longer needs a diary.

At the end of his first year at school, August Pullman, a boy with a facial difference, receives the school’s top medal for his courage and kindness.