"Sam and her best friends, ten-year-olds Jennie and Beth, are going on vacation. Sagawa Lake seems pretty dull at first. But when the girls find an old diary, Sam is quickly on the scent of a new mystery. What is glowing underwater? Why are there webbed footprints on the beach? Who knows the secret of Sagawa Lake?"--Page 4 of cover.

"The Battle of the Bands is off to a haunting start when a ghost tries to scare music away from Pawston forever!"--

"Hiding from Sherlock and her other brother, Mycroft, who want to place her in a boarding school following their mother's disappearance, Enola has reinvented herself as Ivy Meshle, secretary to the fictitious Dr. Ragostin, specialist in finding missing persons. Her new client? None other than Sherlock's friend, Dr. John Watson! His mission: to employ Dr. Ragostin to find the missing Enola! She decides to take the case, only so she can keep tabs on...

Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She's been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one special secret, Cici figures, and if you want to write about people, you need to understand what's hiding inside them. But now she's discovered something truly strange: an old man who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint in all sorts of colors. What is he up to? Why does he look so...