A mysterious “Pulse” sent through cell phones turns users into mindless “phoners.” Artist Clay Riddell finds his son Johnny, who was partly affected, and in the final scene he puts a phone to Johnny’s ear, hoping a second pulse will reset his mind; the book ends before we learn if it works.
Edward Tulane, a proud china rabbit who once loved only himself, is lost at sea and passed through many hands, learning to love and grieve.
Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse in love with Princess Pea, goes down into the castle dungeon to rescue her from the rat Roscuro and the servant girl Miggery Sow.
Sarah Wheaton, who came from Maine to the prairie in answer to Papa’s newspaper ad for a wife, takes the wagon to town alone, and the children, Anna and Caleb, fear she will leave for the sea.
Nana, the Paris courtesan who ruined many rich men, returns from abroad and dies of smallpox in a hotel room in July 1870.
After a rainy, miserable Sunday when the whole Quimby family is grumpy, Mr.
Danny and his father, who live in an old caravan behind their filling station, poach 120 pheasants from the arrogant landowner Mr.
Katherine Danziger and Michael Wagner, high school seniors who believed their first love would last forever, are separated for the summer by jobs in different places.
Following Hari Seldon’s secret plan, the Foundation on the planet Terminus survives a series of crises as the Galactic Empire collapses.
