When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people who lived there during the Revolutionary War.
When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog, she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at school and his father, who may be running a puppy mill, to see if they are involved.
An all-night read-a-thon at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School turns into a treasure hunt when the kids read about hidden treasure in the school basement.