Book 1

Charlie Brooks, a black child, prays for God's help when he goes to the new federal city of Washington to search for his father who is working there, and ends up mixed up with President Adams, his granddaughter, and a proposed peace treaty with the French.

Book 2

Mockingbird Mystery

by Marianne Kendrick Hering

Published 15 September 1998
While staying with their grandfather, President Thomas Jefferson, at the White House, Ellen Randolph and her brother and sister try to discover what is behind a series of strange occurrences, including a broken skeleton, a picked lock, and information leaked to the newspapers.

Book 3

Having come to Washington City to visit her aunt, Dolley Madison, eleven-year-old Annie encounters a mystery involving the disappearance of things from the White House.