Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.

When she incurs Neptune's wrath by finding a diamond ring buried under rocks in the ocean, Emily is put under a curse that will force her to choose to be either a mermaid or a human and split up her parents forever.

Using his renowned lack of common sense, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips gets himself and his friends Kate and Wyatt embroiled in more dragon adventures, as they discover and hatch the last remaining dragon stone.

The story of Sleeping Beauty "has been told many times and in many ways. But always the maiden finds out that she is a princess--a princess who has been cursed by a dark fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an eternal sleep ... But the power of good endures, as her true love defeats the fire-breathing dragon and awakens the princess with true love's first kiss. The two live happily ever after. And yet this is only half the story. So...

Jaffa City is under a spell of ice and snow. Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to figure out a way to break Lord Sparr's curse before they become frozen too.

For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. When she arrives, she finds Newfoundland is different from her life in Toronto--people there are more friendly, but also superstitious. Ruth's cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts. When they find...

For generations the Charming men have been cursed, but now that the witch Envearia is dead the curse should be broken--however things are complicated at Charming Palace: King Clement is still nasty, Queen Maud has fled with the help of her son, Prince Dash, and Ella Coach (called Cinderella) would rather be at home sewing than living in the palace at Charming Prep school.

Strange occurrences have long surrounded teenage Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by a ban on magic and pursued by his mother's former masters.

Children's birthdays are always strange in Willow Falls, but when Connor's little sister Grace falls into a frozen state on her tenth birthday, Amanda and Leo must travel back in time to find out what force prevented Angelina from casting the blessing that would have protected her.

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.