Have you ever dreamed of flying? Eleven year old Reed Adams has. He has lived in ten different foster homes since he was five years old. Now he is living at a ranch in peaceful Apple Valley and dreams it will be his home. Exploring at his new school he finds some strange, extra large caterpillars along a creek. After capturing one in a jar it immediately transforms into its pupa stage. Reed leaves it with the librarian until after school. When he returns Reed finds something that will change his life forever. Travel with Reed, Dawn Martin, and Mrs. Stewart, the librarian, on the flight of a...

Jaden Steele and her friend, Bobbi Jones, are thrilled to be invited to one of the most famous homes in California history, the Bartlett estate in a remote area of Big Sur, California. The owner of the estate, David Bartlett, advertised his ancestor's sword for sale. Jaden was considering the purchase for her case of swords in her cutlery shop in Carmel. Captain Josiah Bartlett was hanged 125 years earlier for murdering his wife. He swore his innocence to the end and also swore to haunt Smuggler's Point until he was proved innocent. Jaden and Bobbi are only in the house one day when they...