The adventures of Chester, a very musical country cricket, who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.

When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.

At the Santa Barbara Mission on the California coast, fourteen year-old Zia finds herself caught between the world of her dead Indian mother and the Mission world of the white man in the mid-1800's. However, she has come to Santa Barbara with her younger brother, Mando, for one purpose. Somehow, they will go to the deserted island of the Blue Dolphins and find their aunt, Karana.

"Keeping pigeons as pets is common among the young boys of Calcutta, India. But the carrier pigeon Gay-Neck is unique. In the course of his adventures, he is as much the teacher as the student of young Dhan, his owner and trainer. Gay-Neck serves heroically in World War I, carying messages, but must struggle to overcome a paralyzing fear acquired at the battlefront. How does he find the incentive to fly again? The answer offers young readers insight...

Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.

A lonely boy who has no home and works as a migrant laborer makes friends with a sheep-raising family.

Lion-O faces Mumm-Ra in a final showdown on Third Earth. As punishment for failing their task to eliminate the ThunderCats, the Ancient spirits of Evil exile Mumm-Ra to the edge of the universe. New Thundera is safely rebuilt. New dangers threaten the fledgling civilization, forcing these brave pioneers to push their powers to their limits.

The black slave Juan de Pareja is sent to live with and assist the Spanish painter Velazquez.

In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.

When the Thundercats' planet of Thundera becomes unstable and nears collapse, they set out on an intergalactic voyage to the planet known as Third Earth where they encounter a number of interesting creatures including the evil Mumm-Ra.