RACHEL HARAWAY has a deep hatred of Dora the Explorer. GENJI HAYASHI has just gotten his first journal. MYA BRIGHT thinks the library has lost her book. PHOENIX WASHINGTON is about to give away a melted Twix bar. Four kids, each living normal lives. But then a man named Atticus shows up at their school, and suddenly everything changes as the kids from Ames are catapulted into a century-old conspiracy, head-first. And it's only after they find the first clue that they realize just how high the stakes are and begin to uncover astonishing secrets about each other... and themselves.