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The Day of the Dead mystery

The Aldens are visiting friends for a big Dia de los Muertos celebration. The kids love learning about the holiday and helping out that is until mysterious events threaten to ruin everyone's preparations.

The cupcake caper

Mama Tova's shop in Greenfield is so famous that every day, people line up around the block to buy her cupcakes, but when someone breaks into her kitchen and tries to steal her secret recipe, the Aldens must use their mystery-soving skills, and their taste buds, to solve the case.

The clue in the recycling bin

The four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, volunteer at the new recycling center in town, and help uncover who is breaking in and making a mess each night.

The clue in the papyrus scroll

The Alden children continue their mission to return lost artifacts around the world by visiting the Pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England, among other places, but along the way they must outwit a thief.

The boardwalk mystery

The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe.

The amazing mystery show

The Alden kids are sabotaged when they compete in a new game show that involves a camera crew following them around Philadelphia as they compete with another brother-sister team in a search for clues.

The mystery of the star ruby

The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.

A Cinderella story

Samantha, a high schooler whose life mirrors Cinderella's, defies her stepmother to attend the Halloween costume ball where she is supposed to finally learn the identity of her online love, Nomad, but she is shocked to find he is the most popular boy in school, and before she can unmask herself, she is forced to flee, leaving her cell phone behind.

The secret garden

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Sailing for gold

Davey has been saving his money ever since his mother died so that he can leave the Seattle boardinghouse where he lives and works and go find his Uncle Walt in Alaska, and he becomes even more determined when gold is discovered in the Klondike and his stash of money disappears.

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