Fly with inventor Frank Rude, Jr. and his friends to New York City and their adventures as wild as the West. With his sister Inanna, cousin Charlie, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the mysterious Woman in Black, orphan PS and Ko-Ko the Monkey-Boy they face the enigmatic Flying Prairie Schooner and take on Wall Street, Chinatown, Little Italy and Five Points. Together they turn New York's gang history upside down and Frank creates his greatest invention yet.

Young inventor Frank Rude, Jr. is confident that his airship Thunderbird will win the first world's first Transatlantic Race. All he and his crew including cousin Charlie, sister Inanna, detective Denver Doll, the Woman in Black and orphans PS and Kurt have to do is escape from a floating island and its giant snake guardian, defeat a group of Fenian terrorists, retrieve a precious religious artifact and rout an exotic animal smuggler. But after the airship is sabotaged in Oxford, to the rescue comes the mysterious Jean Ember Myth. Is the femme fatale there to help Frank, or to steal his...

Forced to Grow Up In the island kingdom of Mineria, intelligent energy beings called Guardians give members of the royal family supernatural abilities like speed, stamina, and strength. But the nation is shocked when thirteen-year-old Dale, a prince weakened by childhood disease, is picked to succeed the aging king over his older half-brother Erik. In anger, Erik turns to the primitive cousins of the Guardians, the Feral Spirits. The aggressive nation of Capagia, an ancient enemy, decides the time is ripe to test the newly-crowned boy king and sends a vast armada to conquer Mineria. Can Dale...