While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage and pet cat, and to catch the thief.
In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling towards Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes.
When thirteen-year-olds Cooper, Hiro, and Gordy witness a robbery that leaves a man in a coma, they find themselves tangled in a web of mystery and deceit that threatens their lives.
Twelve-year-old Goldie, impulsive and bold, relies on her skills as a liar and a thief to try to rescue her captured friends from the child-stealers running rampant in the City of Spoke.
Twelve-year-old Eddie Atwell accidentally learns who has been stealing lobsters from Fog Island lobstermen and enlists thirteen-year-old Briggs Fairfield, a summer visitor, to help foil their plans.
Cat Royal, raised by London theater owner Mr. Sheridan after being abandoned as an infant, travels to Paris at his request to spy on the revolution and ends up trying to save her friends who have been charged as traitors.