Cia Anderson starts eighth grade desperate to fit in, but is drawn back into the world of magic and fairy tales when she discovers the Evil Queen's latest scheme and sets off on a cross-continental adventure.

The Strong family is having a reunion in New Orleans, and twelve-year-old Tristan is supposed to be keeping an eye on his younger cousin Terrance when several things happen at once: he sees his archenemy, King Cotton, and a mysterious girl grabs his magic cellphone--her name is Seraphine, and she seems to know everything about Tristan and the god Anansi (currently inhabiting the cellphone), and she has a mission for Tristan, one that is going lead...

"Puss's boots need mending, so he visits the elves and the shoemaker and helps them in return"--

His parents keep forgetting that Winston is a big bear now, but when he discovers a burglar in the house who has eaten all of his porridge, Winston proves that he is both big and brave. Includes suggested activities.

With his Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, Milo sets off with Alessia to find a cure.

Could the new teacher at Sprinkledust Elementary School be a fairy-tale character in disguise? When Fiona and Frieda sense that they have a fairy-tale emergency on their hands, they activate their magic rhyming powers. Soon these experts are inside the real Snow White story. The Evil Queen is already in the cafeteria cooking up the poison apple. Will Fiona and Frieda be able to stop her before Snow White goes into a coma?

As a narrator begins telling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Papa develops Page Fright, is unable to say his lines, and runs away through other books.

In this fairy tale mixup, the Three Bears get an unexpected visit from Redlocks (otherwise known as Little Red Riding Hood) who has fled her book to get away from the wolf--and the Bears, with some help from the Three Little Pigs, need to mediate between Redlocks and the misunderstood wolf.

Abby tries to use the magic mirror to get to her friend's house, but she ends up with her brother in the tale of Little Red Riding Hood; where, having accidently knocked out the Huntsman, they set out to save Red (named Lali) and her rather unpleasant grandmother themselves--but end up having to save the wolf (who actually seems a lot nicer then Lali's grandmother), and discovering a surprising secret about their own Nana.

Yearning for adventure, the young Knights of the Round Table are drawn to Orkney, Scotland, where they face a kraken and other monsters, including Queen Margause and her son, Mordred.