Brilliant fifteen-year-old Josie has a knack for languages, but her sister's engagement has Josie grappling with the nature of true love, her feelings for her best friend Stu, and how anyone can be truly herself, or truly in love, in a social language that is not her own.

When one of the lambs on the farm gets lost on the other side of the river, Daisy, who can communicate with animals, and her dog Boom help return him to the flock.

Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti finds himself on a boat to the Caribbean where he will be sold to the Corporacy, but his parents and lion friends are in pursuit, and he is determined to outwit his captors.

Aware that the evil smuggler, Pam, is closing in on their location, the bears of Bearhaven are moving to a new location--but the attack comes too soon, and Spencer Plain and his bear friends, Aldo and Kate, are cut off from Spencer's parents and the other bears, and in serious need of a plan to rescue both themselves and the captive bears that are controlled by Pam.

Still not accustomed to her life as a princess, Elissa, learning on the eve of her fifteenth birthday that she is to be betrothed to a man of her father's choosing, runs away and, after many difficulties, reunites with her friends to finally fulfill the prophecy of the Phoenix.

When Tito grows up he wants to be a bombero. He speaks both English and Spanish but he never dreamed his bilingual skill might actually help Richie and the other bomberos save the day!

A physicist receives mysterious information about how to enable immortality in a city torn by the agendas of "fast ones," shadow players, jinni, and two revolution-minded sisters; while a thief on the edge of reality is aided by a sardonic ship to risk his freedom and find his patron.

In the near future, Charlie Ashanti, a boy who can speak the language of cats, sets out from London to find his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.

Continuing their adventures through space and time, Ben and his faithful dog, Ned, find themselves in the Mediterranean region in 1703, befriended by a troupe of traveling entertainers and relentlessly pursued by ruthless Barbary slave traders.

Nimbus the pegasus wonders why she cannot be sunny all the time like everyone else, but when she introduces her friend Kelp to her cloud, she finds the unicorn is a very good listener.