In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.

When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower, his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save him.

When Commander Salamander and his band of pirates capture the "Star Warts" spaceship, Commander Toad is forced to hop the plank.

A young girl relates the known facts of the English colonists who settled on Roanoke Island and later disappeared, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.

It is the first day of school at Monster Academy, where all the monsters go, and the lesson for the day involves counting missing teeth. Vic the vampire is sad because he still has both fangs, until Jo, a troublemaking student, gives him an apple at lunch.

Where is Wendy? Leading a labor strike against the Lost Boys, of course. A Scottish academic unearths ancient evil in a fishing village. Edgar Allan Poe's young bride is beguiled by a most unusual bird. Dorothy, lifted from Kansas, returns as a gymnastic sophisticate. Emily Dickinson dwells in possibility and sails away in a starship made of light. Alices wicked nemesis has jaws and claws but really needs a sense of humor. In Jane Yolens first full...

Relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.

Two rambunctious monsters creep, gurgle, crawl, and tumble before falling asleep.

Beneath the midnight moon, mice battle mean-hearted creepy crawlies to protect their farmyard home.

Jason, who will grow up to become the head of the Argonauts, leads five other boys on a dangerous quest to save the kingdom of Iolcus, learning along the way what it means to be in command.