Third book in award-winning Bailey Fish Adventure series for ages 8-12 features Bailey, 11, and her environmentalist grandmother, Sugar and their new neighbors the Keswicks. The Keswicks are fixing up once-elegant family home to live in and raise their adopted, homeschooled boys, Noah and Fred, both 12. As the kids, including Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation of being a bully, help with repairs, they find treasures. But one by one the treasures disappear and Justin becomes the prime suspect as Noah, Bailey and Fred try to solve the mystery. Embedded history includes Native Americans. Book includes pictures, maps, glossary, discussion questions and related Web and book resources.

Bailey Fish, 11, is happy when the Keswick family plans to move into a once-elegant country home near where she and her grandmother. Sugar, live in Virginia. The adopted, homeschooled brothers, Noah and Fred Keswick are about her age and fun. Bailey, and Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation of being a bully, are hired to help the Keswicks with cleaning and repairs before they open their home as a country inn. The kids excitedly discover valuable and historic items among the trash inside the old house. Then, one by one, these treasures disappear. Justin's unusual behavior makes him the main suspect as "detectives" Noah, Fred, and Bailey try to solve the mystery. Nonfiction elements include Native-Americans.