A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.

Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.

Gerald, Whose communication in the form of clangs, toots and blasts, distresses his parents and the kids at school.

The magic tree house takes jack and Annie to an Aftican rain forest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communciate with them.

World War I has started and the military needs horses to move equipment, charge the enemy, and carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield. Joey, a farm horse is sold to the Army. Joey misses the farmer's son, Albert, and spends the war years wondering if the war will ever end and if he will ever see Albert again.

When she is sent as part of the delegation from Tortall to negotiate a peace treaty with Carthak, fifteen-year-old Daine must use her powers to communicate with animals for more than healing the Carthak emperor's dying birds.

Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.

A hound who was once a princess and a bear who was once a king travel back in time to save a kingdom and find their human selves.

A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.