Joe and his dog Wishbone are working in a used bookstore, but strange things start happening when someone starts breaking into the shop to leave books instead of take them.
A mystery in which Wishbone, the television dog, and his friend Joe Talbot discover that the lighthouse they are helping to restore holds the key to a dangerous secret.
Now a full member of the "Aurora" crew, Davy Shea assists his uncle, Captain Hunter, in the search for Jack Steele as the pirate king's plundering grows ever more intense.
When the evil sorceress Belle Frisson ensnares Rose Rita Pottinger in a magic web in order to steal her life force, Lewis Barnavelt must risk his own life to save his friend.
Twelve-year-old Kurt and his father encounter poisonous plants, an earthquake, and a gigantic flesh-eating dinosaur when they begin exploring the interior of the Outer Island near Dinotopia.
Joe Talbot and Wishbone, helping with the restoration of the Skeleton Reef Lighthouse which has been donated to the Oakdale Historical Society, discover the structure holds the keys to incredible treasure and grave danger.
After several burglary attempts occur at the bookstore where he is working for the summer, Joe and Wishbone decide to investigate and discover that some of the most important clues to the mystery are in the books themselves.
While helping Gladys Glendower fix up the Moonlight Drive-in, Wishbone and his friends try to discover who is responsible for the series of mysterious fires that threaten to destroy the old theater.
Wishbone senses that someone is up to no good when he, Joe Talbot, and their friends take a ride on a train that was used to smuggle money and other valuables in the 1930s.
