When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.

Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

Attending an ecological conference in Alaska, the Thea Sisters are introduced to local games and customs by their native Alaskan hosts before discovering that someone is endangering the ecosystem by using explosives to blow up the ice.

Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders in the Alaska Young Explorers program; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5,000 dollars. On the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge turns deadly when they find themselves lost in the fog while hiking down a glacier, where a single misstep could mean injury and death.