Thirteen-year-old Salamanca “Sal” Hiddle reaches Lewiston, Idaho, on a cross-country trip with her grandparents and finally accepts what she has known all along: her mother died in a bus crash there and is buried on the hillside.
Fagin is hanged, Sikes dies while trying to escape and Oliver is adopted by Mr.
Stargirl Caraway, the free-spirited girl who briefly tried to be “normal” to please Leo Borlock, returns to her true self and wins the state oratorical contest, but the school shuns her.
Donna Trenton and her four-year-old son Tad are trapped for days in their broken-down car by Cujo, a rabid Saint Bernard.
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.
