"Sakura finally has a date with her darling Syaoran! She's working hard to make the perfect picnic lunch for him, but on the big day, a strange message arrives, calling Sakura away to her great-grandfather's home. Then, Sakura's late mother appears to her again-perhaps with her the answers to the questions about the hooded figure from Sakura's dreams, and the beginning of the solution to the mystery of the transparent cards themselves ..."--Back cover....

After his life is saved by the sacrifices of friends, Kimihiro Watanuki investigates a haunted house, works with Warashi spirits, and faces off against Fei-Wang Reed.

As Yue confronts Syaoran about the secrets he's been keeping from Sakura, Sakura grows closer to Akiho. In order to help draw her solitary, book-loving friend out of her shell, Sakura invites Akiho over to show her her father's library. But when a powerful, unknown magical force suddenly descends upon the two girls, Sakura discovers that there may be more to her friend than meets the eye...

"Now that she's in middle school, Sakura's having a lot of fun with her new friends, and these days she's busier than ever. But one day when she's about to have dinner, she's transported away by a mysterious darkness. She glimpses a huge clock with a mysterious figure standing among the gears--but what is that figure trying to tell her?"--Back cover.

"Strange things are afoot in Sakura's neighborhood again, beginning with the appearance of puzzling transparent cards in her dreams. Those same dreams have brought her a key that can capture the cards, but as Sakura begins to round up the troublemaking cards that are complicating her shiny new middle-school life, the mysteries only multiply-- beginning with the mystery of the new transfer student in her class..."--Page [4] of cover.