Dwight is in trouble, again. After the events of last year, the class is now in seventh grade. Harvey, over the summer, made an origami Darth Vader. He instigates fights with Dwight and his origami Yoda. Some of Yoda's advice to a student seems like a threat and is brought into more attention by Harvey. Dwight is suspended and may even be expelled-all because of Harvey and Darth Paper. If you want to find out what happens in the end, read this funny book.
Moses Thomas lives in the town of Wilmington. He just got out of school and can't wait to have summer fun. Unfortunately, not everything is easy in that town in the year of 1898. Racism blocks Moses from having fun and his best friend is growing apart from him. He usually is a well-behaved boy, but he does get in trouble with the law and has to work at a plantation to pay off a ticket. Moses has to endure this and more, including the Wilmington Massacre of 1898.
Tantum is a young teenage girl that is visiting Santa Ysabel Island (in Alaska) for a week with her mom. She loves dogsled racing and meets and befriends an Eskimo boy named Cole who also likes dogsled racing. They decide to do a trial run, but then a freak blizzard hits leaving them stranded in the middle of nowhere. With half of the dogs exhausted and one dog with newly born pups, one person will have to go for help, leaving the other behind.
Young Hal is a young teen competing in the Brotherband training. The Brotherband training is to prepare them to be Skandian warriors. His team is called The Herons, after a new type of sail he invented. Their rivals are the team called The Wolfs. The Herons steadily do better in the challenges, but then something happens in the end of the training and his world falls apart.
Michael Vey seems like a normal kid. But is he? He has a super powers; the power of electricity. He is sort of like an eel. No one knows this besides his best friend Ostin, but recently a girl named Taylor told him she has powers--the power to reboot people, which makes people black out for a second or two. Together Mike, Ostin, and Taylor form a club called The Electoclan . Then Mikes mom and Taylor get kidnapped, and Mike has to go on a quest to save them. On the quest Mike finds out a horrible secret that his Mom has kept hidden from him for many years.
