When a string of suspicious events plagues Green Beach Manor, an assisted-care home for adults, Carla Day takes a job at the Manor in order to figure out who is behind the events, and stop them before anyone is hurt.
Summer is almost gone, and third-grader Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, are spending their time working on a play for the local public library, and visiting Abigail Flynn at the Evergreen Nursing Home.
While visiting the Oakwood Nursing Center, Rosie and Kayo ignore the ramblings of one of the patients who keeps talking about a man with a gun, but when they see on the news that someone has been shot in the house across from the Center, they realize the elderly man is a witness to the crime.
Emily comes up with a wonderful way to cheer her grandmother when the elderly woman is forced to leave her house on Maple Street after many, many years and move to Forest View Retirement Home.
When her acting teacher dies and leaves her a sizable estate, Stacy investigates her death, uncovering a nursing home scandal and renewing her commitment to acting.
Fourteen-year-old Barry, visiting an eighty-three-year-old woman in a nursing home and encouraging her to delve into her distant past, finds the project affects him deeply in his situation as an adopted child.