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Life in the remote town of Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam and his friends, until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events.

When her father is called home on business from their summer vacation, fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to cope with adult-sized problems: her young new stepmother is traumatized by childhood memories, while Nikki feels she is being stalked on her new friend Julian's property.

Young Canadian Liz Austen is taken hostage by terrorists on a trip to Disneyland with her aunt Melody.

Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested as she unearths the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality.

Christina, Grant, Shelly, and Allison travel along California's historic Old Mission Trail, hoping to solve a mystery that has them all completely baffled.

When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.

Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when Alison and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert.

Young real estate agent Ben Stephens tries to move on with his life after his younger brother winds up on death row, but when his mother implores him to consider the possibility that Roy is innocent, he decides to look into the case himself.

When Carmelito, California, is named America's Number One Dog-Friendly Town, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his family are thrilled.