Beckett, a solider in Afghanistan, falls in love with Ryan's sister through her letters to him and, despite feeling guilty over his friend's death, seeks her out to fulfill his promise to watch over her.

Returning to school after being in the hospital for a while, six-year-old Erin, whose favorite game is spotting animals in the clouds, finds things much different until she comes to see that by sharing her experience, she can find happiness again in just being herself.

"The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced...

"With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death" -- Title page verso.

Old Ebenezer Scrooge is too mean to spend money on coals for the fire in his counting-house, where his clerk Bob Cratchit shivers in the winter cold. Declining an invitation to his nephew Fred's Christmas party, and refusing to give money to charity, he is ready for his usual miserly Christmas in his cold, dingy apartment. But that night, the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley appears and tells him to expect a visit from three spirits over the...

A suspense novel on a doctor who returns to work in a small town full of murky secrets, including a suspected kidnaping. But others think Dr. Helen Fielding herself has a secret. Years earlier in that town Fielding's two-year-old sister disappeared while in her care, never to be found again.

In a garden near a hospital, young Noah has imaginary adventures while waiting anxiously with his family for his new baby sister, who has a serious medical condition, to be released.