Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.

James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.

Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.

Karen learns how to handle herself in an emergency at school and must use the knowledge when her friend falls through the ice at the local pond.

When imaginations go wild in the schoolyard, anything can happen, so it is up to Scrap, his partner Yoshi, and Clinton, to stop recess from collapsing into chaos.