Valerie Tripp

With their first mystery solved and first-day jitters triumphantly behind them, Izzy and her pals---the S olving M ysteries and R evealing T ruths Squad---start to settle in to the normal day-to-day at Atom Middle School. Izzy even works up the courage to try out for an all-boys sports team! Things are going well until a mysterious illness threatens to shut down the media center---and maybe the entire school. The S.M.A.R.T. Squad is on the case in...

Molly befriends a war refugee named Emily Bennett, who struggles to overcome shyness.

During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice who needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots.

Elizabeth Cole and her best friend Felicity are known as pranksters in colonial Virginia and their favorite target is Elizabeth's older sister Annabelle, but when Annabelle becomes engaged the girls get into big trouble.

Molly's excitement at performing in a big show is exceeded only by the announcement that her father is returning home from the war.

Nellie O'Malley finally has a home again. She and her little sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are happily settling in with Samantha's family in New York City..."

When she discovers that Nellie and her sisters have been sent to anorphanage, Samantha, now living with her aunt and uncle in New York City, triesto help her friends as much as she can.

In 1932, Kit faces a very different Christmas because of her family's financial problems and allows her pride to estrange her from her best friend.

In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.

Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.