Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.

After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.

After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.

Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.

This time a strange flashing cube from the magic suitcase sends them to a nearby city, Hadenstown, in the future, and they find themselves surrounded by flying cars, tall glass buildings, and robots; but Randall is also there, and the two children must scramble to figure out just what the mysterious cube is and get it back where it belongs--and their quest brings Chase face-to-face with his future self, Professor Teslar.

Ava and Chase want some more information before they embark on another adventure in time, but the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects is not being helpful, and when Chase picks up the scarab of King Tutankamun they find themselves transported not to ancient Egypt, but to Egypt on the day King Tut's tomb is discovered--and they must get the artifact back into the tomb while avoiding Randall who has arrived before them.

"It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life Is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong... When the Canymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a fifty-year-old...

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

When high school junior Tessa Reynolds falls into a coma after getting hit in the head during gym class, she experiences heaven as the mall where her parents work, and she revisits key events from her life, causing her to reevaluate herself and how she wants to live.

On a visit to the Natural History Museum, Chase and Ava seem on the verge of finding out something important about the mysterious Randall, the missing scientist Finn, and the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects, when the dinosaur egg from the suitcase (they thought it was a potato) sends them back to dinosaur times--where they have to return the egg to the correct brontosaurus nest, while eluding hungry dinosaurs, and Randall,...