Shy Sawako Kuronuma is ostracized by her classmates, who call her Sadako because of her resemblance to a horror movie heroine, but when Shota Kazehaya, the most popular boy in school, becomes her friend, things start looking up.

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ismael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past--

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Rikuo Nura, three-quarters human and one quarter yokai, a supernatural creature that thrives on human fear, finds himself caught between his everyday life and that of his grandfather, supreme commander of the Nura clan, a powerful yokai consortium. When Rikuo is named to be the next supreme commander, the clan is unphappy, especially Gagoze, a high-ranking yokai who hates humans.