In the year 498 After the Settlement of the planet Trycanta, almost-seventeen-year-old Katia Manton dreams of a life beyond her tiny village and her lonely, bitter mother. When Katia gets the chance of a lifetime--to discover the fate of her vanished friend Martha--will she have the courage to take it, no matter the consequences?

A recently-retired dwarven ranger sets out on one last grand tour before settling down, following the great trans-continental Caravan across the land of Veropa and taking in the sights and cultures of a world not unlike our own.

Of course, this being a Thousand Book Challenge story, it's not quite that simple...

This story contains some strong language and violence, and is recommended for teens and older.

Briana King's life is falling apart. Her beloved father has just died, and her controlling mother wants to boss her eighteen-year-old around as though Briana were still eight. Strange dreams seem par for the course. But what about dreams that leave evidence behind?

In the decade called the Texting Twenties, young men and women all over the world suddenly begin to transform into animals. To keep the American public safe from them, the therianthropes, or beast-people, who survive their first change are sent to a compound called Sanctuary, high in the Colorado Rockies, where the only law is the law of the wild.

Alex Redstone, a young wizard of the thirteenth century struggling to escape his father's evil magic, and his friend Moxie, a brownie bound to serve the Redstone family, accept the offer of a mysterious stranger to send them where, or rather when, Baron Redstone cannot find them. Neither of them expects the date of their arrival.