While traveling in Europe with her grandmother, Mandie is told suddenly that they are returning home. Who are the strangers she finds in her home and why are they there?

Mandie returns to school in Asheville, North Carolina, and finds herself the target of a prankster who manages to make her look like the troublemaker.

Mandie must find her late father's missing will or risk losing ownership of his house.

Mandie and Celia try to trace the descendants of the rightful owners of the pirate treasure they find in the schoolhouse basement.

When she and her grandmother return to Franklin, North Carolina, for a Christmas visit, thirteen-year-old Mandie worries about how all the guests will get along with each other and wonders about the appearance of a mysterious package addressed to her.

While on spring break from her girls' school in North Carolina in 1902, fourteen-year-old Mandie joins her college friend Joe in solving a mystery in the nearby mountains.

While digging through a chest, Mandie and her friends discover wonderful old quilts, some of which were made by her Cherokee grandmother. Uncle Ned shows up with another quilt that has some writing on it. However, he tells Mandie to pack it away because the message it contains is dangerous. Curious Mandie can't resist finding out what that message is.

Mandie's favorite teacher, Miss Hope, has gone missing.