Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.

A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn.

A mystery-loving anteater has a chance to solve several mysteries during her vacation at the Hotel Bathwater.

College student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, not realizing that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.

Mary's pet mouse Pip goes missing in the Grand Hotel, leading her friends on a search through the lobby, the kitchens, and the Royal Suite.

Rana Ramsey, a supermodel who has such a unique allure that its only fitting description is the "Rana Look," leaves modeling and her manipulative manager mother to live plainly and anonymously in Texas, but her disguise is threatened when she meets a man who loves her for herself and not her beauty.

While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.

On a visit to Cincinnati from rural Kentucky during the Great Depression, Aunt Millie impresses Kit with her money-saving cleverness. Includes information on life in America during the Great Depression.

In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.

When Le Fay McNally becomes a finalist in the "Tap 'n' Type" typewriting competition, she and her four unusual siblings stay at the Dell Hotel, where they encounter joy, tragedy, and a variety of interesting characters.