"Rosie and Baker need to keep up the illusion that their Great Grammy is alive before the Grim Hesper takes away the only home they have ever known" --

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are spending a week on a houseboat! Throughout the journey, the children have the feeling they are being watched--and they are. Someone wants something that's hidden on their boat, and they'll stop at nothing to get it.

"The Aldens visit their old friends, the Piccolos, at their pizzeria. When they learn the restaurant isn't doing well, they offer to help. But the oven doesn't work, the electricity shuts off, and then someone hands out fake coupons! Who wants to shut down the Piccolos' Pizzeria?"--Back cover. When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind...

"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live in a boxcar. Now they have adventures everywhere they go. At a lighthouse, the children find a mystery in the night!"--

The Boxcar Children are spending their winter vacation at Snow Haven Lodge. The lodge is having its annual winter carnival, and the Boxcar Children sign up to compete in events like skiing, skating, sledding, and building snow and ice sculptures. But no sooner has the competition begun, than the children have a mystery to solve!

While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.

A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.

The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.

The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.

The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia.Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by his son Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world...