After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier.

Septimus and his friends wind up on a mysterious island with a dangerous Syren and a villainous band of sailors.

Wolf Boy is sent on a Task by aunt Zelda, while Septimus and his dragon, Spit Fyre, fly off to bring their friends home, but they all wind up on an island whose secrets are as dangerous as its inhabitants.

"13-year-old Alice TodHunter Moon goes in search of her friend Ferdie, who has been kidnapped by the malevolent Lady, encountering Septimus Heap, ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and awakening her own Magykal potential"--

When strange moans and clanks echo down the halls of her boarding school, junior detective Araminta is determined to solve the mystery.

Provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating and flying a variety of paper airplanes and gliders.