A teenage girl is the apprentice to a mysterious magician who fails to reveal the sinister lifeforce behind their magic.

A high school girl raised to question history is disappointed by her crush, who has bought into the one-sided truths presented in school.

A Black foster teenager looks for escape from his life through books he borrows at a library. A witch-librarian guides his selections along the way, and ultimately gives him an off-limits book to help him literally escape the world.

A detective investigates a murder at a school in an alternate end-of-19th-century Europe where time can be manipulated for personal vendettas.

A boy visits the Ulysses County library seeking books that allow him to escape into distant worlds. As the witch-librarian chooses stories for him and senses him becoming more and more desperate, she eventually lends him a book that literally allows him to leave his world.

When a young girl finds that she can no longer visit the magical world she loved as a child, she tries to find her way back to that world while struggling with the challenges of growing up.

After being disruptive in class, a child is sent to a social worker’s office and ends up telling her she is actually a 2400-year-old child. She meets the rest of the social worker’s family and gets welcomed as a foster child, but her inability to help the aging grandfather regain his youth creates so much resentment in the family that she must run away.

After a school shooting, a teacher and her students struggle to process the trauma and constant fear of death lurking around the corner at any moment. The presence of death looming carries over into the teacher's personal life, including her book club and the friends who attend it.

For six straight years, Jack’s parents have forgotten to pick him up at the end of summer camp, leaving him stranded there year-round. But this summer, Jack’s dragon egg, a childhood gift from his grandmother, is finally going to hatch. While the egg offers Jack a chance at escape, it also comes between him and Nancy, his only friend.

On the eve of her students' elementary school graduation, a teacher in rural Ireland makes one last push to prepare her students for the real world.