On the wintry day when her drama club has a mishap on the way to see a play in the city, Hillary is glad that she has bundled up in her warmest snow gear.

Eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. Helga is questioned by the island's guards and though they're suspicious of her story, they agree to let her stay until they find her family. The truth is, it's no accident...

In a wordless picture book, a dog comes up with a rescue plan that utilizes an excavator and help from his friends when his puppy friend goes missing.

When a cargo ship is wrecked during a storm, the first on the scene is Salvage Master Miley with her tugboat and salvage team, ready to do what it takes to bring the ship back to port.

"As Elmer the patchwork elephant is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly is trapped. Elmer easily frees her. She promises to help Elmer. But how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?"--

When Sarah's brother, Louis, is eaten by a Gulper, Sarah does not panic but follows the trail as the Gulper is eaten by a series of other creatures until finally she has her chance to rescue Louis from them all.

In this cumulative, rhyming story, a little chick needs help from all his farmyard friends to get out of the mud.

"Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen must save her brothers in this outer-space retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans"--

After Daniel's explorer parents vanish and he is forced to live with his strange Aunt Severe, he finds himself on a rescue mission to save three lost dragons who have been captured by the evil Gotcha Grabber and thrown into a zoo.

A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.