When Elise leaves homeschooling for public school, she copes by speaking as little as possible, but soon her silence becomes an impediment to friendship and to dealing with family secrets.

"At T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, when the old, broken clock strikes twelve, the library is transformed into something out of an author's mind--and today the volunteer pages find themselves in the middle of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination where monsters lurk, and a raven is telling them to find Lenore if they want to restore the library to normal."--Provided by publisher.

Gumluck, a young, naaive wizard, does his best to help the local townspeople (and a small friendly ghost) with his sometimes critical raven sidekick, Helvetica.

The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there.