Matt Phelan

When raccoons invade the Athensville Zoo, it is up to Plum and his friends to save their beloved home.

Yearning for adventure, the young Knights of the Round Table are drawn to Orkney, Scotland, where they face a kraken and other monsters, including Queen Margause and her son, Mordred.

"On a crisp, fall day and evening, rambunctious bear cubs turn getting dressed into an adventure"--

The year is 1908, and a troupe of vaudeville performers has arrived in sleepy Muskegon, Michigan to spend the summer. Young Henry Harrison is fascinated with the animals and performers, but mostly with a slapstick performer his own age named Buster Keaton, who is also a master prankster and loves to play baseball.

When an unexpected blizzard strands the animals of the Athensville Zoo in a seemingly empty elementary school overnight, Plum the peacock must overcome his anxiety to save his friend Itch, who gets lost in a snowdrift.

"A pig experiences adversity but in the end enjoys a perfect summer day"--

In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness.