A deserted farmhouse, a missing dress, and a mysterious couple are all clues to an abandoned mine.

While visiting New York City in 1901, thirteen-year-old Mandie uncovers a mystery in the mansion where she is staying.

When Mandie Shaw finds a cat hiding in the bushes outside school, she knows it must belong to someone, but until she can find its true owner, she keeps it in her home and cares for it.

Mandie and her friends investigate when someone seems to be secretly living in an abandoned house, and their vacation seems to be ruined by an approaching tornado.

Mandie and her friends investigate the disappearance of a turkey from Aunt Lou's oven just before Christmas.

Mandie can not wait to have a new friend but Faith does not seem to want any friends.

Mandie returns home from school to spend the summer with her mother and stepfather. Ever since she learned her mother was pregnant, she has been jealous of sharing her mother with a baby.

Before Mandie can translate the mysterious Cherokee message on her quilt, it is stolen, leading her to believe that someone is trying to keep a dark secret.