James Preller

Meet Carter, Esme, and Arnold, three students accidentally locked together inside an almost deserted school. They are not friends. They scarcely know each other. But In the basement, a mysterious night janitor waits. And outside, moving in the mist, dark shapes shuffle closer.

Malik and his sister Tiana find a creepy doll in a locked box buried behind an abandoned house.

Sucked into a strange video game where he finds himself caught in a snowstorm, young Aaron ventures into the nearby woods only to hear scary howls and discover that he's trapped.

Soccer star Kristy Barrett, a thirteen-year-old who dreams of playing for the women's Olympic team, faces an identity crisis and struggles with pain and panic attacks after a severe concussion sidelines her.

A young pirate and his crew embark on a grand adventure when they board the bus for the first day of first grade.

Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.

Someone stole 'Old Rusty,' Ralphie Jordan's trusty bicycle. Jigsaw and Mila hit the trail to track down the thief. But one piece of the puzzle doesn't fit. Who would take a hand-me-down bike? Solving this case is an uphill ride for ace detectives Jigsaw and Mila.

Joey agrees to eat a worm on Halloween if Bobby pays him a dollar, but when the worm disappears a scary mummy is blamed, and Jigsaw and Mila have to solve this gooey mystery.

"What's bright and shiny and hard to find? Buried treasure! Jigsaw's class finds a hidden riddle that leads them on a treasure hunt ..."

In Runaway dog, Jigsaw Jones has to work on a missing dog case before Thanksgiving. His dog, Rags, is missing. Did he wander off, or was he dognapped? Great detectives don't solve mysteries by lying around. Jigsaw and Mila are sniffing out clues. In the Stinky science project, Bobby Solofsky fooled Sally-Ann with a phony magic trick. It was a rotten trick. But that's not all that stinks. Something smelly is spoiling science time in Ms. Gleason's class....