Eleven-year-old Maybelle travels from Louisiana to Nashville with her neighbor Mrs. Boggs in order to compete in a singing competition judged by her absent father.

Emily Windnap's best friend, Shona Silkfin, is a mermaid who loves to sing...but only when she is by herself. So when Shiprock School announces a talent show whose winner will have the honor of meeting King Neptune, everyone is excited to perform--except, Shona, who is too nervous to sign up. But when Emily overhears her friend singing, she's amazed by Shona's beautiful voice. With Emily's encouragement, Shona decides to enter the talent show--and...

A boy lives next door to a retired opera singer and his pet dog, Giovanni. The three are friends, but when the old man dies, friendship renews and continues between the boy and the dog as they strive to overcome the loss of the friend who brought them together in the first place.

In an effort to find her missing grandfather, Emeline enters the forest of Edgewood where she discovers not only that the stories of the fabled Wood King and his mythical court are true, but that her Pa's life is in danger and only she can save him--along with a handsome and brooding tithe collector, a surly blacksmith, and a lost childhood friend. When her grandfather disappears, leaving only a mysterious orb in his wake, the stories Emeline Lark...

Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.