Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and will eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.
When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud.
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a caf? and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
"The winter sports season is here, and the Aldens are excited about all the snow activities--especially snowboarding. But soon they find themselves in the middle of a mystery surrounding a star athlete and a stolen snowboard"--.
"During auditions for the show 'Pop Star Sensation' at the local mall, one of the judges, a famous pop star, disappears, and the Aldens must find out where she went"--.
"The Aldens visit Ireland and stay in a beautiful castle that's now a hotel. But at night they see a mysterious figure who walks with a lantern, and think it could be one of the legendary banshees"--.
