Travis, Nish, and the rest of the Screech Owls hockey team find themselves in the middle of a real-life murder case when a dead body is found hidden in the boathouse at their summer camp.
When he first meets Countess von Loewen, Jordan finds himself obliging her by burying a quartz skull she claims is cursed. She is not your typical neighbor, but soon she employs him as her gardener and believes in him as nobody ever has. Jordan must now confront his own self-worth and value.
When her father is called home on business from their summer vacation, fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to cope with adult-sized problems: her young new stepmother is traumatized by childhood memories, while Nikki feels she is being stalked on her new friend Julian's property.
While working as an apprentice in a London theater company in 1597, fourteen-year-old Richard uncovers a mystery involving the disappearance of his father and a traitorous plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.
At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.
Sixteen-year-old psychic Jessica Mastriani, hoping for a good junior year in high school, learns that popularity, can be dangerous when she tries to locate a missing cheerleader without letting the authorities know that she still has her powers.
When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.
P.C. and Mac decide to investigate when they notice a bizarre connection between the seemingly accidental deaths of a number of famous chefs in New York City.
