Bruce Coville

Ages 8-12. When his pen pal from back home comes to visit him on Earth, Pleskit is excited, but also a little nervous about how his old and new friends will get along.

After rumors start about horrible happenings at the alien embassy and a rise in anti-alien sentiment on Earth, sixth-grade alien Pleskit Meenom decides to investigate the situation.

After he talks with an adult who was once a lapsnatcher, Jacob begins to feel differently about his new baby sister.

As Beloved and her Hunters begin the final hunt for the unicorns by ripping through the Axis Mundi into Luster, the magical world begins to collapse from the wound and Cara seeks the help of Graumag the dragon and other friends across Luster for a final and decisive confrontation with the Hunters.

Thialfi, the Norse thunder god's goat boy, tells how he inadvertently helped the giant Thrym to steal Thor's magic hammer, the lengths to which Thor must go to retrieve it, and his own assistance along the way.