Flowers are beautiful, unless you are 16, and plagued by an old family curse. Princess Emma is determined to find a cure, and not turn mean and ugly like her aunt and grandmother did when they touched a flower. With help of her friend, Eadric, and others, Emma travels back in time to the day before the curse was made. This is book three in the Tales of the Frog Princess series.
The three Bone cousins, Smiley, Phoney and Fone are run out of Boneville. They get lost and separated when they travel past the borders of their map. One-by-one they all find their way to a fantastical valley filled with talking leaf shaped bugs; snarling, hairy rat creatures and an adoring, little possum family. They must struggle through the sudden winter to find each other and then try to find their way back to Boneville.
Maddy has always wanted a cat, but she can't have one because of her little brother's allergies. When she buys three tiny, mysterious ceramic cat statues from an antique dealer, one of them comes to life! Maddy and the cat must work together to solve a very big problem: the class bully has been tormenting one of Maddy's classmates. When the solution works, and the bully turns on Maddy, will the tiny cat's magical powers be enough to save the situation?