Leven discovers that he must travel to the island of Alder to find the answer that will save the realm of Foo from destruction.

When fate brings fourteen-year-old Leven and thirteen-year-old Winter together, they discover that for mankind to continue dreaming, the gateway between reality and dreams needs to be found and demolished.

Leven is summoned to the abode of the Want, not knowing whether that leader's intentions are to harm or to help Foo, and soon Leven is separated from his good friends as he continues his battle to save that mythical land.

Upon his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle he had never met in a remote manor house, where he learns that his family suffers from a curse that allows him to make plants grow on command and dragon eggs hatch.