Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
Shy Megan Kelly truly believes she is to blame for her family's misfortune. She is happy when a lvoing young couple living in the rugged Kansas territory adopt her. With help from her new family, can Megan find a way to overcome her fear and superstition.
Mike Kelly is adopted by the Friedrichs a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. His new stepmother is very kind but his step father is strict. And as for their son Gunther, he is a real bully who find countless ways to get Mike into deep trouble.
Arriving for a vacation on Holiday Island, penguins Gus and Gertie stumble into a hotel full of Bad Guys and have a beautiful valuable deep-sea pearl stolen from them.
Brian and Sean Quinn decided to search the caves for Lester, a young boy who was missing. The one important obstacle to entering the caves was the reputation of a pirate ghost. Perhaps there were other dangers too.