Though he has a healthy distrust of the police, fourteen-year-old Ezekiel Blast uses his talent for finding things to help a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl.

A boy's favorite book is missing, and he describes it to the reader in great detail, including all the changes he made to it (like hedgehogs covering the pictures of the scary monsters) until you realize his missing book in in your hands.

Little Simon Seahorse likes to tell stories, and if some of them are embellished, it just makes for a better story; but when his lucky pearl disappears he and his friends have a real-life treasure to find--and of course it will become a super story to tell, one that hardly needs embellishment.

Three classmates decide to form a mystery club and vow to find missing playground balls, learn what happened to a beloved teacher, and determine whether a bathroom is haunted.

"Mr. Fish's class has a pet, but one day the pet isn't in its home. Where did he go? The whole class is about to pout! Will they be able to work together to find the pet?"--

"Join pup Zooni and the zoo crew on a series of rhyming adventures: finding a lost shoe, exploring mountain caves, and getting lost at sea"--

Visiting her lovable, younger cousin in Chicago over the summer, twelve-year-old Leah tries to help him recover from the trauma of a school shooting.