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Remote man

2002
Thirteen-year-old Ned and his depressed mother leave Australia for a rest in America, but he is soon on the trail of international smugglers of exotic animals, with help from his Internet friends.

Valley of death

2002
The Landon family makes a trip to Death Valley National Park accompanied by a mysterious new foster child, fourteen-year-old Leesa Sherman.

Stranded

2001
Jennie, having survived an airplane crash in which her grandmother, the pilot, was injured, finds a commune where she asks for help, but she soon begins to suspect that the commune is a front for illegal activities.

The $66 summer

2000
Thirteen-year-old George, spending the summer of 1955 working in his grandmother's store in Obadiah, Alabama, becomes involved with helping his African-American friends, Esther and Bennett, solve the mystery of their father's disappearance.

Tightrope

1999
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.

What they don't know

1999
Kelly must solve the mystery behind her sister Hannah's angry, destructive behavior.

Drive-in of doom

1998
Wishbone, Joe, and their friends are helping Gladys Glendower fix up the old Moonlight Drive-in but the job gets tougher when mysterious fires threaten to destroy the drive-in.

Case of the on-line alien

1998
David Barnes, who is going to debate against the possibility of aliens, begins to receive mysterious messages from the aliens themselves.

The disappearing dinosaurs

1998
Wishbone investigates the theft of rare dinosaur fossils from Oakdale College.

The trouble with lemons

1992
Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.

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