Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

When things change around the house after her baby sister is born, Frances decides to run away--but not too far.

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

"A badger realizes that being too tidy could be disastrous"--

The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker.

"Stinkbomb and his sister, Ketchup-Face, fulfil a quest to find the Magic Porcupine in hopes of capturing the escaped rascally badgers"--

When Hazel and her beloved doll Eleanor are set upon by bullies, Hazel's mother comes to the rescue in a surprising way.

Frances the badger foils her friend Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china tea set and teaches her a lesson about friendship.

Lord Asheye, the Badger Lord of Salamandastron envisions his own demise, prompting him to send a clever haremaid from the Long Patrol on a quest to find his successor. Meanwhile, Gorath, an orphaned warrior badger, has a vision of his own: a sword-wielding mouse tells him to follow a thief to Redwall. Complicating matters are Vizka Longtooth and his scurrilous Sea Raiders who want to capture Redwall for themselves.

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set.