Eleven-year-old Bailey Fish is starting to enjoy her new life in Virginia after her traveling mother sends her to live with her grandmother, Sugar. Suddenly strangers arrive--a father she does not know and an annoying half sister. Norma Jean smiles too much, touches everything, and is not like Bailey's best friends who are more like real sisters. Norma Jean even sees the good in Justin, a former bully, who is raising a pet crow. Bailey and her best friends form the No Sisters Sisters Club to keep Norma Jean out. Attitudes change when the sisters learn that they must work together to solve the...

Bailey Fish, 11, is happy when the Keswick family plans to move into a once-elegant country home near where she and her grandmother. Sugar, live in Virginia. The adopted, homeschooled brothers, Noah and Fred Keswick are about her age and fun. Bailey, and Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation of being a bully, are hired to help the Keswicks with cleaning and repairs before they open their home as a country inn. The kids excitedly discover valuable and historic items among the trash inside the old house. Then, one by one, these treasures disappear. Justin's unusual behavior makes...

Includes book club questions and related web sites.

Includes book club questions, glossary, and related web sites.

Bailey Fish's grandmother, Sugar, decides to open a used-book store in a little barn at the neighboring Keswick Inn. When Bailey and her friends, Noah and Fred Keswick, help Sugar unpack the cartons, they discover that several books contain clues to a mystery involving an unusual Florida shell (alphabet cone). While the kids try to decode the meaning, a stranger shows up to search for specific books before the Book Barn opens. Meanwhile, the Keswicks have surprises of their own with the arrival of rescue horses to live at the country inn near Lake Anna. Then, Bailey helps the boys' mother...