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Ronald "Cheesie" Mack shares memories, thoughts, and drawings about everything that happened before, during, and after fifth grade graduation.

A chance meeting between sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace, a basketball phenomenon with secret literary ambitions, and recluse William Forrester, a one-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, yields unexpected rewards for both men.

A recluse, having written stories peopled with beloved character, releases them into the world on a hot-air balloons, hoping they will find life and return to him.

Fourteen-year-old Joseph reluctantly agrees to draw a portrait of his reclusive neighbor, Tom, for a class assignment, and over time, like the silkworms Tom raises, both men come out of their cocoons and face their fears.

Sixteen-year-old New Yorker Jamal Wallace is a standout basketball player with a secret passion for literature.

Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.

When Ruby Moon Hayes, twelve, and her mother move to tiny Fortin, Vermont, Ruby is surprised to make friends at school and in the neighborhood, where a reclusive lady hides a huge secret.

Hugo the pigeon, the park warden of a small Parisian park, tries to coax a mysterious Somebody, the only one who never opens the windows for his visits, to come out to enjoy the park and make new friends.