The Mysteries of Middle School

# It's been raining in downtown Mobile, Alabama for over twenty consecutive hours. Tori and her cousins work desperately to plug the ceiling's leaks in Grandpa's enormous comic book warehouse. The water keeps dripping, valuable comics are being ruined . . . but the real challenge is for Tori to keep the peace with a difficult cousin.

# Mia is spending the summer with her aunt in a tiny town high in the Colorado mountains. During her bike rides, she encounters Jackson, an old mountain hermit. But is Jackson more than just a hillbilly recluse . . ?



# Marcus works as a summer carnie at the local country carnival. By getting a regular paycheck, he gradually learns how unbalanced and "unfair" the world of money and ethics can be. Especially when this world involves another carnival worker, who is also one of his closest friends.



# Jim comes across a dusty nun's habit, stored away in an old attic. As he unfolds the history behind the habit, he also unfolds an unsolved mystery to his town. Are the habit and the mystery related?



# It's summertime and McKenzie is working her grandparents' weekly mail route in their dirt-road neighborhood in rural Louisiana. When she delivers to the "swamp area," the route becomes bizarre . . . and the people there even more bizarre . . .