In The Chronicles of Strange Ways: The Secret of the Spores, fourteen-year-old Jake Chambers becomes the talk of the town when he inherits his granduncle's massive fortune in Strange Ways, Nevada. The condition of the inheritance is that Jake must carry on his granduncle's secret work - solving and documenting the strange "goings-on" in the city. Jake's first mystery is to solve his granduncle's death, which has something to do with the odd hallucinogenic spores being sold to teenagers and teachers alike at his high school. Also at stake is the life of Jake's mother. When Jake learns it may...