When their father asks for help tracking a jewel thief, the Hardy boys find that the trail leads them back to their own hometown. There, they begin a new investigation of a mysterious death which occurred many years ago.

When outlaw Dirk Yeller looks for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam knows what this criminal needs to calm him down.

Spunky twelve-year-old Goldie, Toadspit, and the other children face up to Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of mercenaries who have captured the city of Jewel.

Daredevil eleven-year-old Billie has an exciting summer, in spite of her overprotective stepfather, when she figures out where her father and uncle are hiding after robbing a bank and enlists her cousin's help in convincing them to surrender.

Freed from prison by the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang, Cuno Massey, imprisoned for killing several U.S. marshals hellbent on raping the women he was escorting to safety, must ride a bloody trail, unsure where his allegiances lie.

Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City.

"A magicless boy, a fierce bandit leader, and a lost princess must join forces to save their worlds from foreign forces and a long-forgotten evil that lurks in an ancient magical forest"--

Two young men from the village of Tarnof try to prove that a peddler has stolen Farmer Kohl's horse and hidden it in his sack.

Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.

Lady Merry Ellison, seventeen, will go to any lengths to protect "The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest," a band of orphans from her former village who hijacked ill-gotten gold meant for the king, capturing the attention of Timothy Grey, the ninth child of a baron, who longs to perform a legendary feat and earn a title of his own.