When John reads to his younger brother Matthew, the book becomes real. Hiding from pirates in an apple barrel or pulling a sled over the tundra, John and Matthew always face danger together. But when Matthew is knocked unconscious at school one da...

Rachel is shy about sharing her remarkable gift for painting…until she meets a professor with an equally remarkable gift of sight. Mrs. Nellop is better at taming unruly high-school students than casting spells. But the five Crowder brothers...