“Read it. Watch it. Live it.” Scholastic’s promotional blurb for Skeleton Creek, a multiplatform project due next month, lets kids know what they’re in for. Conceived, written and produced by Patrick ...

In a much-anticipated “multi-platform” mystery, Carman (the Land of Elyon series) tells of two small-town teens who go looking for trouble in an abandoned dredge once used to find gold. Presented as ...