Five children discover a beautiful golden bird that grants wishes--and a magic carpet that takes them wherever they want to go. They have many exciting adventures, like a trip to a South Sea island...and they find buried treasure!

Eleven-year-old Lily has grown closer to her thirteen-year-old brother Paul during the spring their family has spent on the Greek island Thasos, until the unpredictable behavior of another American boy disrupts their lives.

Iggy, who feels like an outsider in his famous family, starts his own podcast about his greatest interest, insects, but when his broadcasts become popular after he embarrasses his sister, his sister, who has a YouTube channel, decides to fight back.

Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who still live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, bow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While...