Chris Riddell

Ottoline and Mr. Munroe, her very helpful dog, enroll in the Alice B. Smith School for the Differently Gifted and while Ottoline worries that she may not have a special gift, Mr. Munro worries about the ghost that is said to haunt the school at night.

A boy, orphaned and raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, boards his birth parents' sled and sets its special compass to "Home," where he uncovers a plot that threatens his mermaid godmothers and other friends of his family.

While traveling aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats and called the Brotherhood of the Clowns, as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.

Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.

Sixteen-year-old Twig joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a mission to collect stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.

Rock Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.

Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.