Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.

Thirteen-year-old Kat wants to be at "mini-camp" with classmates rather than touring the jungles near Cancun, Mexico, on a family vacation, but a story told by one of her Mayan guides helps her understand that by always trying to please her friends, she is losing herself.

With the arrival of August, Zinnia, the youngest of the Huit octuplets, eagerly anticipates getting her power and gift, both of which hold big surprises that are revealed to the sisters on their eighth birthday.

Eleven-year-old Portia and her family return with cousin Julian to the site they visited the previous summer, this time to take possession of a large Victorian house, unoccupied for fifty years and full of treasures and secrets.

When Patrick Flint goes after a murderer on the Wind River Reservation, he puts everything -and everyone - he cares about on the line. Patrick Flint feels a calling to volunteer at the impoverished Indian Health Services clinic on the Wind River Reservation that he can't completely explain. His wife Susanne supports this-usually-but her family is coming for their first Wyoming visit, twelve-year-old Perry is stir crazy and looking for trouble, teenager...

Gabby Woods loves a mystery, but is breaking into an abandoned lake house going too far to uncover the truth? Gabby Woods is looking forward to another summer vacation at her family's lake house, even though she would rather bury herself in a mystery novel than make new friends. But soon Gabby meets Paige, a snarky kid from Chicago, and they get caught up in a local mystery: the sudden disappearance of a glamorous couple and the extravagant lake...

"Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. There's a gorgeous old house, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand...and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen! Mary Anne knows that Scott the lifeguard is way too old for Stacey, but Stacey's in love. Suddenly Mary Anne's doing the work of two baby-sitters, and she doesn't like it one bit. But how can she tell Stacey that Scot just isn't interested-without...

Something on this island is up to no good . . . When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible one, as the castaways must find a way to escape while dodging the island's dangerous inhabitants. With few resources and a mysterious entity on the hunt, each...

"It's supposed to be a relaxing vacation, but instead Geronimo works his tail off fixing up an old castle. Worst. Vacation. Ever!" --