When twelve year old Jack Paris feels the small jaws of a creature that shouldn't exist clamp down on his leg, life as he knows it in small-town northeast Texas comes to a sudden end. Miss Edna, his foster mom, is forced to take him and his friend Sally to a world she secretly forsook two hundred years before to save his life. There Jack discovers that an evil wizard needs him for unknown purposes and will stop at nothing to capture him. The wizard pursues Jack and Sally through forests and under mountains on the other world, and even across Kansas back on Earth.

With all their...

Fourteen-year-old Joss Morgan loves a good prank, but the joke's on him when he discovers he has superpowers. He quickly learns that with the new powers comes real danger. The Mockers are coming for Joss, and they'll use any means necessary to force him into a life of crime.

To fight back against the Mockers, Mara, assigned by the Guild of Sevens to train Joss in his new powers, sends him to steal corporate secrets. Fighting crime with crime feels upside down, and Joss wonders which side he's really on.

When the Mockers arrive at his home, Joss, out of time and desperate,...