Tory Brennan and her Virals friends work to prevent the financially strapped Loggerhead Island Research Institute's imminent shutdown, an effort that leads them to investigate an old Charleston buried treasure legend.

Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there by a famous gangster.

"With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems. As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception, she learns that the secrets her mother took to her grave are now putting...

Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy outsider.

Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.

Hoping to fulfill her late sister's wish that she explore the infamous Gray Wolf Island and find a long-rumored buried treasure, Ruby forms a team with other children from sad or unusual backgrounds and embarks on a search using clues found in a poem and a treasure map.

"Chris Kingsolver has always been especially close to his aunt. He's heartbroken when she dies in a car accident--and shocked to get a coded letter in the mail after her death. Elsie left Chris clues to the location of a lost treasure ship as an inheritance--if he, his cousin Carrie, and their new friend Maddison can find it. But that might be difficult, what with the mysterious people stalking them, and the strange behavior of the new archivist....