"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest -- how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?" -- Provided by publisher.

Abigail the Breeze Fairy has been blown off-course without her wispy wind feather. Will Rachel and Kirsty be able to find the feather and bring calm to the blustery village?

"In the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone, a village comes together to regain the beauty of life as it was in the past"--

"The picturesque beach of Wild Rose Bay is the last place Lydia Butler thought she'd be. But having just lost everything, the run-down cottage she inherited from her Great Aunt Nellie is the only place she can take her daughter, Sunny. Hidden away in a tiny Irish village, she can protect Sunny from the gossip in Dublin, and the real reason they have nowhere else to live... The cottage is part of the old coastguard station and other eccentric residents...

"Julia Bird joins the library just in time to attend a talk by celebrated local author Vincent Andrews. Vincent teases the crowd with a reading from his forthcoming novel. Set in a village bearing strange similarities to Berrywick, with characters the audience start to recognise, Vincent hints of dark secrets to be revealed, to gasps of outrage from the room. The meeting ends in uproar, and, just hours later, Vincent's dead body is discovered behind...

A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain -- a prized local landmark -- to be a "hill". The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.

The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village in the central highlands of Vietnam.