On a hot summer day, a little girl sitting by her sister on the bank, having nothing to do, begins to let her imagination grow. Her curiosity and hatred of logic cause her to dream of a nonsensical world filled with amusing characters.

Here are all the embarrassing things that might happen to you in the fourth grade -- and do happen to you, if your name is Alice McKinley: 1. Your next-door neighbor (who happens to be a BOY!) sees you in your underpants. 2. You sneeze beans all over your best friend. 3. Your brother lies to you for fun and you believe him. 4. You get trapped inside a snow cave -- your own snow cave, that is. 5. You're the only person in the whole grade who can't...

Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" is the follow-up story to his classic children's tale "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and it is no exaggeration to say that, over the years, it has become just as popular and beloved as his first book. When the original story became a publishing sensation in 1865, renowned for its imaginative characters, creative and incisive use of language and keen wit, Carroll set to work on the sequel and the result...

A motorcycle salesman is found murdered in a shipyard.

A teacher is found strangled in her own classroom.

Alice Nevers returns from maternity leave and takes on a new murder case.

A Romanian interpreter is found dead and her fiance is missing.

Alice Nevers investigates the case of a supermarket manager found in the freezer.

Alice Nevers tackles the case of a murdered farmer whose body was found with planted drugs.

A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders ... but her fear is worse. It's going to bring absolute disaster to the rest of her summer, maybe to the rest of her life. The truth is she's afraid of deep water! It's a hot August, and everyone in Alice's gang goes to Mark Stedmeister's swimming pool...