Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.

Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that she's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.

Continuing Aesop's fable, Fox and Crow tussle over pieces of cheese, but Mama, one of the three bears, outwits them both.

"When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen; Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio; and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school--and...

Conner, Bree, and their friends from the Land of Stories discover that the fairytale world and the Otherworld are on a collision course that will open a portal connecting the two dimensions in New York, allowing Morina, the witches, the three literary emperors, and the literary army to enter and take over the city, but can Conner stop them and restore order to the fairytale world without the help of his twin sister Alex, who is in Morina's thrall?...

After being brought to life from words, the fire-eater Dustfinger decides to leave his young apprentice Farid behind and return to the book, Inkheart. Farid, in turn, sets out to find Meggie and the two of them become caught inside the book. They ultimately meet Fenoglio, the book's author, and Farid, Meggie, and Fenoglio try to fix the story as the tale is changing in an unimaginable way.

The Caretakers, John, Jack, and Charles, return home after seven years only to find they must travel through a forgotten door in the destroyed Keep of Time to find the Dragon's Apprentice and restore Time--a quest that has serious consequences whether they win or lose.

Shy, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is suddenly transported by a mysterious book into the Land of Story, where characters from books hope to be cast into a tale of their own, and Una attends the Perrault Academy while trying to discover why she is there.

Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.

The Winter King's Shadow, having gained control of the doors from the Keep of Time and of an army of Dragon Shadows, plans to use the turmoil of World War II to conquer worlds, but all Caretakers, past and present, come together to stop him, using some unlikely weapons.