"A young basketball player receives inspiration from a surprising place and joins the competition ready to try his best"--

Shadow weaver Emmeline and her best friend Lucas, a light singer, must try to use their powers to stop evil Lady Aisling, the magic eater, once and for all.

Twelve-year-old Emmeline possesses the unique ability to manipulate shadows. When her magical powers are threatened by a noble family, she desperately turns to Dar, her shadow friend, who offers to save her if Emmeline makes Dar flesh again, but this bargain only puts Emmeline's life in further jeopardy.

Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.

After Smoot the shadow comes unstuck from his boy, he has a wild time that inspires other shadows to live out their dreams.

In this final masterpiece from the late Tomi Ungerer, Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon, except Vasco. Luckily, Vasco has his shadow to guide him, and he finds little green Poco, someone to care for and bring to safety. Nonstop dangers await Vasco and baby Poco at every corner, but Vasco's shadow rescues and guides them through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes to safety. It's a timely, thought-provoking tale...

"Seventeen original stories that take place in the absence of light."--

Mia is excited about her first superspeed training class, but a bully on her relay team leads her to lose her shadow and, worse, to snap at her friends.