While trying to beat their town's "golf club kids" in a treasure hunt, Captain Roger Redbeard, Sniffles the Cabin Boy, and Ellie, a band of modern-day pirates, uncover a real treasure.

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, Jan and Elli are ashamed that their fathers work for the Nazis, and they try to find a way to help the Dutch underground resistance.

Although he finds him boring at first, Adam soon becomes fascinated with Mr. Haddock, a heroic World War II parachutist who lost his legs and now lives in the nursing home where Adam's mother works.

Although he is supposed to be learning to scare people, a young ghost who attends the Anne Boleyn Secondary School discovers a different way to haunt humans.

When one of his detectives-in-training spots a woman with nearly all of the signs of a criminal, young Damian Drooth tails her through a dog show and learns that she really is up to no good.

Thanks to a mysterious old watch, Becky and her twin brother Chris travel back in time, but the novelty soon wears off as they see the consequences of their interference in past events.

Mia is shocked when a video game cartridge found in a canal draws both her and her brother into a game experience that is very real--and very dangerous.