After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.

When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.

"When Nancy and Bess accompany George to a cousin's wedding in historic Charleston, South Carolina, they end up staying at an old inn near the family's home with the rest of the guests. But when they begin hearing strange noises and witnessing unexplained phenomena at night, they soon discover that it's one of Charleston's most haunted hotels! When the wedding rings disappear during one of these spooky evenings, Nancy knows she's got to get to the...

Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town. With the cold weather and the stress of the approaching holiday season, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family. But the Heffleys soon discover that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous critters all threaten...

At the school 6th-grader Chase Cooper attends, everyone is talking like a pirate. Soon there are rumors of a pirate invasion and now the entire school is in danger. Only Chase can save it.

"Eva offers to babysit for little brother Baby Mo so her parents can go sky-dancing competition, and she enlists a couple of her friends to help--unfortunately Mo proves to be a handful, eating too much candy, making a big mess, and throwing a tantrum, and she and her friends have to clean up fast before her parents get home." --

Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of her best friend.

When a bullying billionaire comes after Du Pré, the part-time investigator will stop at nothing to protect what's his A rumor circulates around academic circles that the long-lost journals of Lewis and Clark are in the possession of hard-bitten Montana fiddler Gabriel Du Pré. A few years ago, Du Pré led a documentary film crew down the Missouri River to commemorate the bicentennial of the famous Lewis and Clark expedition, but he won't say whether...

In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.

There's a big talent show at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. Everything is going well until someone sets a wild animal loose and trashes the stage during rehearsal. Now Chase is racing against the clock as he deals with a some new ninjas, an ugly moose costume and a missing bird.