Jamie is a twelve-year-old who has been labeled highly gifted. Good news, right? Except with it comes a cross-county car trip...with his ultra-obsessed dad...his annoying little sister...and a wacky educational consultant his dad has hired. Jamie could suggest better ways to spend his summer, and to live his life, if only someone would listen. But his dad, Doug, can't hear above the loud voices demanding nothing but the best for his son. Doug will do anything to give Jamie the leg up he needs to compete in a vicious world and get into an Ivy League school. Michael Reilly's hysterical...

Our journey begins at what is called a "Gathering." It is during a Gathering at the Tree House that I tell the stories you are about to read. As I tell the Tree House Stories, you will meet mighty warriors in the Forgotten Forest as they hunt for the last of the Shadowmen. You will experience how Walt must end a life-long relationship with his best friend, Nate. You will read about Elsie, who must travel through the Land of Humans in search of the bridge that leads to the King's Land. You will come to know an angel named Guardian as he protects a young mother and her unborn child from the...