Art thief Sophie steals paintings from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in order to keep her house out of foreclosure, but when the FBI begin sniffing around, Sophis is close to destroying the very life she's worked so hard to build.

After his teacher says that anything can be in an art exhibition, and his fellow students give myriad reasons why something might belong in a museum, a child offers his special grandmother as an exhibit but when the curator cites a rule against accepting grandmas, the child has a better idea.

After a promising student is found at Los Angeles Art College, Maggie Richter returns to her job at the Rocque Museum and uncovers cryptic clues in the dead woman’s video art in this companion novel to Still Lives.

When the time arrives for her to choose her personal magical winter weather ability, Princess Lina examines the beautiful snowflakes, glacier ice caves and polar sea storms of her relatives for ideas on how to distinguish herself.

Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan.

When his friends are less than impressed by the crayon portraits he draws of them, Pete the Cat begins doubting his artistic abilities before reconnecting with his unfailingly creative, groovy spirit and the realization that there are no mistakes in art.