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Get your Game Face on as you tackle each story in this empowering series!

Louie Lin loves to dance. But we’re not talking ballet. No, Louie prefers the rough and tumble sport of rhythmic gymnastics. A fierce competitor, Louie has her sights set on winning the state championship. After lots of begging, her parents finally agree to hire a choreographer, but there’s a catch. To get the training, Louie must also take Korean tea ceremony lessons from her grandmother and participate in the annual Spring Blossom Festival, an important milestone in her family’s heritage. She reluctantly agrees, even though tea parties are way too girly for her tomboy tastes. But when the festival is cancelled, Louie realizes that some things are more important than winning. Can she find a way to still honor her family, or will she disappoint everyone, including herself?

Alana O’Brien is the smallest girl in eighth grade. No matter what she eats (and, boy, can she eat!), it seems her tiny frame is fully grown. Alana likes to spend her time in the MakerSpace working on STEAM inventions, so her small stature is never an issue—until now! Alana is finally old enough to try out for the ice hockey team. She comes from a long line of skaters who expect her to carry on the family’s frozen legacy, so she needs to think quickly before getting beat up on the boards. Skate stilts? Push-up pads? Alana is willing to try every zany invention she can think of to give her an advantage on the ice. Will she find the solution in time for tryouts, or will Alana realize that maybe she’s already got everything she needs to succeed on her skates?

Maya Esposito loves sports—but she’s not an athlete, she’s a reporter! After winning an essay competition, Maya becomes the youngest intern for the local newspaper, The Cape Chronicle. Even better? She gets to write for the sports desk, covering games throughout the entire town! Everyone is supportive of Maya, including Bobby, her lifelong crush. But when Maya takes her talent to the next level, sentiments start to shift. Turns out, not everyone in town believes a girl can really have sports authority. Can Maya stay true to her passion and prove that she’s got what it takes, no matter what her critics say?

Rana Parisi just helped her softball team, the Dodgers, clinch the first place spot in Summer League. As the Dodgers prepare for playoffs, Rana continues to be a star in the field, but struggles at the plate. To make matters worse, Rana’s brilliant idea of planning a surprise thirteenth birthday party for Maya quickly backfires and their friendship is on the rocks. With the whole town watching, can Rana step up to the plate or will she strike-out under the pressure? More importantly, can she save her friendship with Maya in time for the post-game report?

Follow Ella around Windy Hollow as you enjoy this entire spook-tacular series!

Baker Jones needs an extra set of hands to man the register at his bakery. But instead of heavenly aromas and tasty treats, Ella is met with stale crumbs and bare shelves. That’s not all that’s odd about this place. With their piercing blue eyes and soulless stares, the bleak bakery’s customers are what spook Ella the most. Determined to unearth the truth, she follows the day’s final client into the nearby cemetery, where she discovers that perhaps she should have focused less on the bread and more on the dead.

Postmaster Silverton asks for Ella’s help delivering packages. She is surprised to see an abandoned house on her route. But when she returns the following morning the package she dropped off yesterday is gone and in its place is a cryptic note for the next order!

Ella loves to read, so alphabetizing the unorganized shelves at the spooky Simon’s Book Store seems like a simple odd job. She works quickly until her progress is halted by a little girl who is particularly possessive of the store’s children’s section. The mysterious child wants to tell Ella a ghost story. At first, Ella thinks the imaginary tale has been plucked from the shelves until, that is, she hears the ending.

Ella has never really cared about clothes, so when Madame Pintuck enlists her help scrubbing soiled laundry she is less than enthused. The eccentric seamstress won’t stop rambling about famous fashions and scintillating styles. But when a stubborn red stain catches Ella’s eye, Madame Pintuck becomes eerily quiet. Even more suspicious, the woman who arrives to collect the garment does not seem to notice the flawed fabric. In fact, her ghostly gown sports a matching set of the crimson droplets.

Abby and Theo have the coolest family. Rather than gather at barbeques or plan beach vacations, the Winstons investigate the spooky stories and unsolved mysteries of their town, Murky Creek. Grandpa Winston started the tradition, and now he’s passing it on to Abby and Theo! When odd goings-on and suspicious happenings plague the citizens of Murky Creek, it’s up to the two kids to dig up clues and crack the case before things get any creepier.

When Grandpa finds a mysterious compass washed up on the seashore, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo review museum artifacts and brave a raging storm to discover whom it belonged to and what it means for their town, Murky Creek.

An old, silent music box has strangely begun to play its tune, and when Anya Ivanovich asks for the Phantom Finders’ help, Abby and Theo follow the trail of clues to Murky Creek’s once-ornate theater, the Kirby Center.

When a friend of Grandpa’s complains of ghostly shrieking in the long-ago burned-out Waverly hotel on the edge of their town, Murky Creek, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo use a hotel master key and brave a raging snowstorm to find out what all the noise is about and hopefully stop it.

When flickering lights and a ghastly screech begin plaguing Murky Creek at the turn of each hour, the Phantom Finders investigate the clock tower by the high school football stadium. They discover that the tower is dedicated to a star player who would have plenty of reason to curse his old stomping ground.

When a train mysteriously appears at the long-abandoned Murky Creek station and a young man says he lost his ticket to go meet his love, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo review museum records to help him, especially because the voyage he’s talking about happened almost a century ago!

When the famous portrait of Murky Creek’s founding family goes missing from Town Hall just before the town’s 100-year anniversary celebration, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo sift through old photographs and search a crypt after dark to find the culprit and rescue the painting.