Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was anengineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...

While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage and pet cat, and to catch the thief.

In order to stay at a hotel that does not allow pets, the Arbuckles disguise their dog Mercer and introduce him as Monsieur D'Puppie, a mysterious Frenchman who cannot speak English.

While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."

Having explored every part of the fantastical Whippet Hotel, Leo discovers that it hides even more amazing secrets beneath its foundation, in an adventure that puts the hotel's fate in Leo's hands.

It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo's home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects...

Nine-year-old Emma loses all her possessions in a storm that strands her in the desolate Dunes, where the great Grand Wenlocke hotel once was, and she finds an odd assortment of friends as the old hotel begins to stir once more.

Buzby the cat takes a job at a hotel as a busboy and creates all kinds of havoc before he ends up in a special job created just for him.

All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town. The hotel is legendary not only for its whimsical enchantments, but also for its ability to travel—appearing in a different destination every morning. While Jani and Zosa can’t afford the exorbitant costs...