While trying to beat their town's "golf club kids" in a treasure hunt, Captain Roger Redbeard, Sniffles the Cabin Boy, and Ellie, a band of modern-day pirates, uncover a real treasure.
Sammy's new pet, a parrot named Polly, is quite boring, but the friends she attracts--another parrot and a ghostly pirate crew--prove to be very exciting.
When he asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future.
Tom Dashwood looks forward to becoming a knight but on his way to start his training, he is kidnapped by Robyn-in-the-Hat and the Green Men of Gressingham, a band of outlaws who are protesting unfair taxes.
Mia is shocked when a video game cartridge found in a canal draws both her and her brother into a game experience that is very real--and very dangerous.
JP loves to play video games, but when he finds one he has never seen before in the window of a junk store, he is not prepared for how real some games can be.
