Kathleen Duey

Heart must find her family and a safe haven for the unicorns. A drawing in the book from Dunraven's castle shows the same unicorn design as her foundling blanket! Perhaps the book tells more about her family -- but she cannot read it. Searching for a teacher, she finds a blacksmith whose family forge was made by unicorn magic. His old records show that his grandfather made giant iron gates using the same design. If Heart can find those gates perhaps...

"Gavin Reilly is working in the Titanic's galley to earn his passage from Ireland to America. He knows when he finally joins his brother in New York they'll live their big dreams together. Karolina Green is devastated after the loss of her parents. She's returning home to the United States from England with her Aunt Rose, and desperately dreams of fixing her shattered life in New York. But on a calm, clear night in April, those dreams turn into a...

In alternate chapters, Sadima travels from her farm home to the city and becomes assistant to a heartless man who is trying to restore knowledge of magic to the world, and a group of boys fights to survive the academy that has resulted from his efforts.

In 1892 Max and Jodi, young employees of a traveling circus, find their lives endangered when their train wrecks in a storm.

A brother and sister struggle to survive the rigors of Death Valley after their wagon breaks an axle and they set out alone to find help.