1. A Lonesome Childhood 2. Learning a Trade 3. Fagin and His Boys 4. Robbing Mr. Brownlow 5. Kidnapped! 6. Mr. Bumble Brings Bad News 7. The Housebreaking 8. A Dying Woman's Secret 9. A Plot Between Fagin and Monks 10. A Marriage Proposal 11. Oliver is Rescued 12. A Love Story 13. A Chance Meeting 14. An Important Piece of Evidence 15. Nancy Warns Rose Maylie 16. Mr. Brownlow Learns the Truth 17. New Members For the Gang 18. The Dodger is Caught 19....

In their Pennsylvania town in 1942 twelve-year-old Charlotte and her classmates collect scrap metal for the war effort only to have it disappear from the school basement.

It's 1860. Annie Dawson loves living on the Red Buttes Pony Express Station, with daring riders life her friend Billy Cody racing through to carry the mail coast to coast. But more than anything, Annie loves the pony Magpie. When Magpie suddenly turns wild and dangerous, Pa says she has to be shot. Annie's sure someone is poisoning the pony-but how can she prove it? And can she prove it in time to save Magpie?

When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to an orphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, tries to help her friends as much as she can.

Scooby and the gang are having a wonderful time at Pop's Big Top Carnival until the mysterious Carnival Creeper shows up.

Readers may select from a range of plot alternatives as they get ready to celebrate a birthday and try to decipher some strange messages from Festus, the cat.