Lettie Hempstock sacrifices herself to save the seven-year-old narrator from the hunger birds, and she is taken into the “ocean” at the end of the lane, the pond behind her farmhouse, to heal for many years.

Bryce Loski, who spent years avoiding Juli Baker, finally realizes how special she is.

Kate Mularkey dies of inflammatory breast cancer after reconciling with her estranged best friend, Tully Hart, whom she asks to look after her family.

Hazel, the leader of the Watership Down warren, grows old and sees a visitor, the Black Rabbit of Inlé’s messenger, who invites him to join his Owsla.

Nobody “Bod” Owens, raised by ghosts after his family was murdered, defeats the man Jack and the secret society of the Jacks of All Trades.

Will Halloway’s father, Charles, discovers that laughter and joy are the weapons against Mr.

After nuclear war destroys Earth, one family escapes to Mars by rocket.

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross gets her revenge when she shoots Tom Chaney, the man who killed her father, but the gun’s recoil throws her into a snake pit, where she is bitten.

Chester Cricket, who accidentally rode a picnic basket from Connecticut to New York’s Times Square subway station, becomes famous for playing music and saves the Bellini family’s struggling newsstand.

Hanna Schmitz, a former Auschwitz guard serving a life sentence, learns to read in prison using tapes recorded by Michael Berg, her former teenage lover.