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Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his dad and his teenage sister Jasmine for a "fresh new start." Five years ago, his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, and Jasmine turns to piercing and pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. When he sees a TV advertisement for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all.

After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.

Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his dream--until he discovers his mysterious captain's dark secret.

More than twenty years have passed since Ship left the seed of mankind on an uninhabited planet. They started settlements and had children of their own, but as conflict arises once more, it threatens to engulf the children on either side.

Ship hurtles through space, carrying the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children it created from its genetic banks. But can they overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of mankind: themselves?

A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place. Four years later this tiny vessel reaches its destination, ending a journey fraught with danger, excitement, and beauty.

To rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, Xander and David have lunged headlong into history's greatest and most volatile events. But Taksidian's ruthless quest to seize their house and its power has put all of mankind in grave danger.

David and Xander's search for their mother has led them on terrifying journeys as they've stepped through the portals of their creepy old house and into some of history's most turbulent moments. Now they must not only visit the past, they must rewrite it.

To find their mother, who is lost in time, the Kings must turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of their mysterious new house so he can use it for his own twisted purposes.

The Kings have been in their new home--a creepy old place with doors to other worlds--for only a few days, but they've faced enough terror to last a lifetime. Now Xander, David, and Toria must venture through the gates to save their missing mother.