Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the proteg?e of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.

It's the most wonderful (and absolute coolest) time of the year... the holiday season! And that means it's time for the beans' annual gift exchange. But alas, the Cool Bean isn't feeling so merry, festive, or jolly. Rather, he's nervous and anxious and desperate. After all, he wants to give his friend the most perfect and memorable gift every... but he has no bean-bucks to hi name! Will the Cool Bean find that amazing, original, showstopping gift...