After her principal bans a number of books from the school library, bibliophile student Clara joins forces with her friends to start an underground library.

Arthur and his friends can hardly wait for the latest Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club book to arrive at the library, but when they find the popular series has been banned, they decide they have to take action to get their books back.

Elena bears the mark of the wit'ch upon her palm, the crimson stain that testifies to an awesome power of unimaginable potency. Only a mistress of blood magick can stand against the evil of the Dark Lord, but Elena is not yet the mistress of her magick. Protected by an ageless warrior and a band of renegades, she quests for a lost city where prophecies speak of a mystic tome that holds the key to the Dark Lord's defeat--unless the Dark Lord finds...

At the height of Mao's infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for "re-education". The narrator and his friend, Luo, guilty of being sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin, and before long, the beautiful daughter...