When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

During Black History Month, Ryan learns more about her ancestors and local Black pioneers, and their hopes for her generation.

Prue McKeel has returned from the Impassable Wilderness after saving her brother from the evil Dowager Governess. Now her old life of school seems so boring in comparison, and she frequently gets bad grades. Luckily, or unluckily, a new threat is coming against the Wildwood, in which dark assassins have begun to settle old scores, and an industrial tyrant has begun using orphans to exploit the Impassable Wilderness. Prue is called back, and together...

Ryan is caught between two friends who both want to be her best friend, her brother ruins her latest baking project, and a classmate keeps teasing her at school, yet Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things and not let anything steal her joy.

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.

Ryan, a cheerful fourth-grader from Portland, Oregon, tries to look on the bright side of every difficulty life throws at her, including having a name that's typically a boy's name. When her father loses his job, they have to move to a smaller house and sell their second car. Ryan is sometimes sad, especially when she botches a well-practiced speech, but with her family and friends supporting her, she finds ways to make sunshine in her life.