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1042 You're in Good Hands When a class assignment asks fourth graders what they want to be when they grow up, one kid launches an insurance company and another chases stand-up comedy stardom - and both discover their shortcuts come with a price.

2 of 2 1041 The Measure of a Patriot Two kids time-travel through American history hoping to find a flawless founding father to write about - but every patriot they meet keeps disappointing them.

1 of 2 1040 The Measure of a Patriot When two classmates use the Imagination Station to settle whose American patriot is most inspiring, meeting their heroes face-to-face proves far more complicated than the history books let on.

1039 The Great Yellowstone Heist A know-it-all kid's obsessive vacation planning becomes his family's only hope when a Yellowstone camping trip takes a criminal turn.

1038 Accountability, Please On the same day a mom returns to the police force under a difficult partner, her daughter's friends must decide whether caring about someone means confronting her about a secret.

1037 A Quick Fix When a get-rich-quick promise lures a young lawn-mowing entrepreneur away from honest work, two families in Odyssey learn what fast money really costs.

1036 What's the Catch? A high schooler starting college classes gets roped into a friend's scheme to flatter a student teacher for fundraiser money - and finds the plan harder on her conscience than she expected.

1029 This Is My Story When a downtown bookstore burns and a reporter suggests Whit's own words may have inspired the arsonist, Whit responds not by defending himself but by gathering the stories of Odyssey's newest believers.

1035 Word in the Hallway When a hallway rumor about her spirals out of control, a middle schooler must decide whether staying silent to help her best friend is worth the harm it causes.

3 of 3 1028 Face the Truth Reeling from a secret trip through the Imagination Station that left her shaken and empty, Renee Carter boards a one-way bus out of town - and finds the ride home is anything but ordinary.

2 of 3 1027 Face the Unknown When Renee loads a mysterious old Imagination Station program in search of answers about the afterlife, she gets an adventure far different from the one she expected - while an angel shows Connie how the smallest moments matter more than she knows.

1 of 3 1026 Face the Future When three unrelated conversations in one day all point to the same question about her future, Connie begins to wonder whether God is sending her a message - and whether it's time for an adventure.

2 of 2 1034 The Prodigal Twin When Wooton's estranged twin brother vanishes amid accusations of a multimillion-dollar theft, the Bassett family must decide whether some relationships are truly beyond repair.

2 of 2 1025 Value of a Buck After his con-artist mentor's death, Buck Meltsner must untangle a cryptic dying message, a charity scam, and a painful secret - all while wrestling with who he really is.

The Rydell Saga

0802 Parker for President When a school grant puts real power up for grabs, sibling rivals Matthew and Olivia Parker face off in a student election that grows messier than either of them bargained for.

0804 The Key Suspect When every locker at school is found mysteriously open two mornings in a row with nothing stolen, middle-school detectives Emily Jones and Matthew Parker take on a taunting culprit who seems to be daring them to catch him.

0833 The Secret of the Writer's Ruse When a never-before-seen novel by a long-dead mystery author surfaces at the library, two young detectives follow its cryptic inscription into a decades-old puzzle of vanished writers and hidden identities.

0853 The Good in People A newly elected drama club president stakes everything on a bold promise, but a mysterious benefactor's offer proves too good to be true.

0877 A Sacrificial Escape When a mysterious voice hijacks a new escape room and seals it shut, two young detectives must solve its puzzles against the clock while their friends outside race to help.

0885 Further from the Truth When Emily Jones finds her school locker emptied and a cryptic poem left behind, the young detective must follow a trail of riddles that leads uncomfortably close to the friend she's been avoiding.

1 of 3 0898 The Rydell Revelations When a frantic Morrie Rydell accuses Emily Jones of kidnapping his sister, Whit must sift through Emily's recorded case log to untangle who has really been playing detective - and who has been playing everyone.

2 of 3 0899 The Rydell Revelations When a vanished sister forces Odyssey's cleverest schemer to seek help from the one man he couldn't fool, every game he ever played comes unraveled.

3 of 3 0900 The Rydell Revelations When a trusted caretaker turns out to be far more dangerous than she seems, three gifted kids and a stolen souvenir pull Emily Jones into a high-stakes game of spies, secrets, and rescue.

0909 Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off When three students land in detention for phones that aren't theirs, they realize someone framed them to get the school's best detectives out of the way - and the plot is unfolding right now.

0922 The Team A blackmailed high school athlete turns to a reluctant young detective and two reformed schemers, who must outwit an unseen tormentor without breaking any rules themselves.

0955 Value in the Process A brilliant young programmer schemes to skip ahead of a class far beneath his abilities, only to find that the real lesson isn't in the curriculum.

0965 Two's Company, Four's a Crowd When a nervous Suzu asks Emily to help investigate a popular classmate's stolen award, the mismatched detectives uncover clues that don't add up - and Emily must decide what kind of partner, and person, she really wants to be.

1 of 3 0976 The Rydell Realizations When a stranger's tearful story moves young genius Morrie Rydell to an act of kindness, it lands him in a police interrogation room accused of a quarter-million-dollar cyber theft.

Imagination Station

1 of 2 0066 The Imagination Station When a restless boy who finds the Bible boring climbs into Whit's newest invention, he discovers that the greatest story of all is anything but a story to him now.

2 of 2 0067 The Imagination Station A boy inside a remarkable machine finds himself in Jerusalem on the darkest night in history, determined to save an innocent man the whole city has turned against.

0080 A Prisoner for Christ Hiding out at Whit's End after ruining Eugene's college project, Nicholas takes a test ride in the Imagination Station and lands in ancient Rome, where he's swept into the flight of a runaway slave with a slave catcher hot on their heels.

1 of 2 0087 Elijah When a rebuilt invention at Whit's End whisks two kids into the age of the prophet Elijah, one falls into the clutches of Israel's wicked queen while the other must journey with the prophet himself to find her.

2 of 2 0088 Elijah Trapped in ancient Israel, two kids get caught between a vengeful queen and the prophet Elijah as he prepares a fiery showdown to prove whose god is real.

1 of 2 0104 Lincoln A ride in the Imagination Station drops Jimmy Barclay into 1865 Washington, where a chance meeting with a friendly squirrel hunter pulls him into the final, dangerous weeks of the Civil War.

2 of 2 0105 Lincoln While lost in America's past, a boy from the present finds himself swept from the last days of the Civil War into the company of history's giants - and a stranger whose name he can't quite place.

1 of 3 0135 Back to Bethlehem While posing for a nativity display at Whit's End, Connie and Eugene are sent by the Imagination Station to first-century Bethlehem, where their debate over what Christmas was really like collides with a crowded inn, a mysterious star, and restless Roman soldiers.

2 of 3 0136 Back to Bethlehem While the census crowds Bethlehem to bursting, two time-displaced visitors find themselves swept into the very night they only ever knew from nativity scenes.

3 of 3 0137 Back to Bethlehem Trapped in first-century Bethlehem on the night of the nativity, Connie and Eugene must untangle two unwanted marriage proposals, a hot-headed young zealot, and the suspicions of a Roman general before they can witness the moment they came to see.

0149 By Dawn's Early Light A school assignment about flag burning sends two kids tumbling through the Imagination Station into the War of 1812, where the question of what a symbol is worth stops being homework.

0161 Isaac the True Friend Feeling friendless, Isaac takes an Imagination Station trip into the story of David and Jonathan and discovers what true friendship really costs.

0167 Dobson Comes to Town A bewildered stranger walks into Whit's End with no idea how he got there - and he turns out to be someone the whole town of Odyssey knows by name.

1 of 2 0176 The Star A trip through the Imagination Station's new Christmas adventure separates Connie and Eugene in the ancient world, where each finds an unexpected guide on the road to the Christ child - and to King Herod's Jerusalem.

The 1980s

0053 The Sacred Trust A sleepover pact to keep secrets forever puts Lucy in an impossible spot when her best friend's confession turns out to be more than she bargained for.

0062 Let This Mind Be in You With Whit away in Chicago for two days, Connie takes his parting instruction to "do what he would do" a little too literally.

0098 The Visitors On Christmas morning, the Barclays' holiday is upended when a mysterious young family with a baby turns up sheltering in their backyard shed.

0064 The Greatest of These When a fifth-grade grudge pairs Robyn with the classmate who keeps ruining everything, a puzzling Greek word from her Bible study turns out to hold the answer to both mysteries.

0060 And When You Pray... When her little brother's prayers seem to work like magic and her own go unanswered, a skeptical girl sets out to discover how prayer really works.

2 of 2 0067 The Imagination Station A boy inside a remarkable machine finds himself in Jerusalem on the darkest night in history, determined to save an innocent man the whole city has turned against.

0057 The Prodigal, Jimmy With his savings in his pocket and his parents out of the house, Jimmy Barclay decides the rules can wait - a choice that costs him more than money.

0056 By Faith, Noah When two kids ask what faith really means, Whit takes them to the Bible Room to bring the story of Noah - and the trust it demands - vividly to life.

0055 Auld Lang Syne On New Year's Eve, Whit slips away from his own party at Whit's End, and he and Tom Riley spend the last hour of the year looking back on everything it brought.

0085 You go to School Where? When Robyn Jacobs discovers that a new friend is homeschooled, the two girls agree to trade places for a day - and each gets a schooling she never expected.

FP02 Dental Dilemma A big brother's teasing turns a fearless little girl's beloved dentist visit into a day of dread - until Dr. Graves finds out.

0010 Nothing to Fear A girl who's afraid of everything is lured into a prank that leaves her facing her worst fear in a pitch-black basement.

0058 A Matter of Obedience When their father, a country doctor, entrusts them with delivering medicine to a sick woman on the far side of the woods, young Tom Riley and his sister Becky discover just how hard it is to follow a few simple instructions.

0020 Mike Makes Right When mild-mannered Mike Caldwell stands up to the schoolyard bully on behalf of a helpless classmate, he learns that doing the right thing can cost more than he bargained for.

Featuring Connie Kendall

0004 Connie Comes to Town A restless girl from Los Angeles takes a temporary job at Whit's End to earn bus fare home, but small-town Odyssey has other plans for her.

0005 Gifts for Madge and Guy At Whit's End, a Christmas squabble over what to buy a friend prompts Whit to tell the story of a penniless young couple, each determined to give the other a perfect gift.

0007 Promises, Promises New in town and new to her job at Whit's End, teenage Connie Kendall bets her boss Whit that sheer willpower is enough to make a person better - and puts it in writing.

0009 Doing Unto Others Determined to live out the Golden Rule, a well-meaning boy discovers that even his kindest gestures keep backfiring in ways he never expected.

0010 Nothing to Fear A girl who's afraid of everything is lured into a prank that leaves her facing her worst fear in a pitch-black basement.

0011 Addictions Can Be Habit Forming When Joey appoints herself the food police for a struggling friend, she learns that fixing what someone does means nothing until you understand why they do it.

0012 The Tangled Web When Connie asks for the afternoon off while hiding her real plans, Whit hands her one of his old stories to read aloud - a tale about a boy whose one small lie spirals wildly out of control.

0013 Bobby's Valentine When a classmate showers Bobby Novak with love notes he never asked for, everyone's advice on how to make it stop only makes things more complicated.

0014 Missed it by that Much A chronically late girl gets a nightmarish glimpse of where her tardiness could lead - and one morning to prove she can change.

1 of 2 0017 A Member of the Family When his pampered nine-year-old grandson arrives in Odyssey for the summer, Whit discovers that love sometimes means holding the leash tight.

0019 Recollections When Connie wonders why Whit is away from the shop, Tom Riley shares the bittersweet story of the remarkable woman behind Whit's End and the fight to save an old building the whole town had forgotten.

0021 The Case of the Missing Train Car When a prize-worthy model train engine vanishes from Whit's End just before a state-fair competition, suspicion falls on a foster child whose troubled past makes her an easy target.

0023 The Quality of Mercy When a small-town farmer catches a boy stealing apples and lets him off easy, he soon discovers that mercy is a lesson some people have to learn the hard way.

0024 Gotcha! Whit's End's resident prankster learns the hard way that being the best practical joker in Odyssey just makes you the biggest target.

From the shelf: Danger Signals

0462 The W.E. When a flashy new tech-filled Kids Center lures away his young customers, Whit must decide how far he'll go to modernize Whit's End without losing what made it matter.

0463 Green Eyes and Yellow Tulips A charming stranger from Odyssey's controversial new media company leaves Connie tongue-tied - and torn between her heart and her loyalty to Whit.

1 of 2 0464 The Triangle When a careless critique in an elevator introduces young Whit to the very writer he's mocking, an unlikely friendship blossoms - and quietly complicates his best friend's romance.

2 of 2 0465 The Triangle When a misunderstood embrace threatens to destroy a lifelong friendship, Jack must decide whether his broken heart is worth more than the people he loves.

0466 Snow Day A surprise snow day turns into a perilous mission when a boy must deliver his mother's cookies to Grandma while a neighborhood bully and his gang will stop at nothing to steal them.

0467 Broken Window When a window at Whit's End shatters with three suspects and no witnesses, the kids hold a courtroom trial to find out who's guilty.

1 of 2 0468 Chains When Whit chooses a struggling neighborhood over the safe suburbs for his new Whit's End, he discovers the community's resistance runs deeper than he imagined - and so do the needs of two children he finds in its path.

2 of 2 0469 Chains When vandals halt construction and a hostile neighborhood rejects his new shop, Whit gambles that an open invitation - and stubborn trust in two runaway kids - can change hearts in Oswald Heights.

0470 Break a Leg When an accident sidelines the quiet assistant who keeps the Harlequin Theatre running, the pompous Edwin Blackgaard must pull off a children's bicycle race on his own.

0471 Fifteen Minutes A young mini-golf champion and a washed-up sitcom star both discover how quickly Odyssey's spotlight can move on.

0472 Welcoming Wooton When Odyssey's cheerfully unconventional mailman starts pitching in around the local soda shop, his habit of putting people before schedules puts his job on the line.

0473 Breaking Point With the new Connellsville shop stretching Whit impossibly thin, a chaotic day at Whit's End and a malfunctioning Imagination Station force him to decide how much of his life's work he can trust to strangers.

Featuring Jason Whittaker

2 of 2 0212 The Mortal Coil When a heart attack leaves Whit hanging between life and death, the people who love him must reckon with what he built, what he believed, and who else may have paid the price for it.

1 of 2 0290 A Name, Not a Number With a deadly stolen virus in play and a fellow agent missing, Jason Whittaker is pulled out of retirement for one last mission that leads him to a guarded castle in Europe - and to a face from Odyssey's past.

2 of 2 0291 A Name, Not a Number A retired agent's quiet return to small-town life is upended when the secret formula he's safeguarding makes him the target of terrorists, traitors, and a midnight ransom demand.

0293 A Code of Honor The discovery of a mysterious coded ledger in Whit's workroom sends Jack and Jason on a hunt through Odyssey's past to uncover the secret behind a children's club called the Israelites.

0294 Unto us a Child is Born When young Jimmy Barclay decides to stage a live Christmas Eve radio drama of the Nativity with his reluctant family and friends, chaotic rehearsals and a very pregnant leading lady put the whole broadcast on shaky ground.

0295 Soaplessly Devoted A soap-opera-obsessed girl gets to step inside her favorite show as its glamorous star - and discovers the glittering life she envied isn't what it appears.

0296 Red Wagons and Pink Flamingos When a bargain sale makes Kim miss her best friend's birthday party, a stubborn feud erupts that only an old story about a rusted red wagon might mend.

0297 Blackbeard's Treasure Two boys exploring a coastal cave at low tide stumble onto pirate gold - and something that guards it.

0304 St. Paul: The Man from Tarsus A test run of the upgraded Imagination Station drops two very different Odyssey kids into first-century Jerusalem, where one befriends the early church and the other falls in with its fiercest persecutor.

0305 St. Paul: Set Apart by God A blinded persecutor waits in Damascus, and the one man sent to help him is a follower of the very faith he came to destroy.

0306 A Victim of Circumstance A prank gone wrong lands Whit's End in court when an opportunistic lawyer convinces the Rathbones that Rodney is the real victim.

1 of 2 0318 A Touch of Healing An ambitious experiment with the Imagination Station offers two children a taste of what their disabilities have denied them, while Connie faces a family crisis at the hospital.

2 of 2 0319 A Touch of Healing A boy in a wheelchair experiences walking inside the Imagination Station, and the fallout forces everyone at Whit's End to confront what healing really means.

0327 Moving Targets The discovery of a historic tunnel beneath Whit's End sets off a clash between Jason's bold ambitions and Jack's instinctive caution - while old enemies circle with plans of their own.

From the shelf: Friends, Family, and Countrymen

0461 B-TV: Obedience When Bernard broadcasts B-TV from an obedience school, he sets out to show that real obedience is built on trust and love, not blind rule-following.

0476 Relatively Annoying Stuck for a week with the grandparents he can barely stand, a boy schemes to win back his confiscated video game - and stumbles onto secrets that change how he sees them.

0480 The Popsicle Kid A new kid at school must choose between fitting in with the town bully and standing by the odd, creative boy whose handmade gift he publicly mocked.

0503 Between You and Me Reunited after a long crisis, Connie and Mitch dive headfirst into inseparable togetherness - until unexpected news forces Connie to face what their romance has been crowding out.

0504 Aubrey's Bathrobe When a confident new friend arrives in Odyssey with a grand plan for serving God, Aubrey begins to wonder if her own ordinary life is a waste of the gifts she's been given.

0505 The Toy Man When a toy-company executive's push for family-friendly toys puts him at odds with his corporate colleagues, an unlikely job offer from Whit forces him to weigh security and status against a calling he thought he'd left behind.

0506 For Trying Out Loud When repeated tryouts leave Liz Horton convinced she has no talent, an eccentric mailman's disastrous stage debut helps them both discover that real gifts aren't always found where you're looking.

0507 The Benefit of the Doubt With Novacom in ruins, the people of Odyssey must decide whether its ordinary employees deserve suspicion or trust.

1 of 2 0508 The American Revelation When Marvin dismisses the American Revolution as history that has nothing to do with him, Whit's rebuilt Imagination Station drops him into 1775 to see for himself.

2 of 2 0509 The American Revelation When Marvin joins the exhausted defenders of Bunker Hill, he must find his own courage while discovering the forgotten Black patriots who fought for a freedom not yet their own.

1 of 2 0511 The Pact At Hillingdale Haven, an elderly woman with a failing memory becomes convinced she made a long-forgotten promise that must be kept on a fast-approaching date - if only she can remember what it was.

2 of 2 0512 The Pact When Agnes vanishes on the anniversary of a secret childhood promise, Tom and his friends race to decode her journals and paintings before six o'clock.

Where it started

FP01 Whit's Visitor When a nighttime noise draws Whit into his garage, he finds not a possum but a runaway neighbor boy who's convinced his family's troubles are all his fault.

FP02 Dental Dilemma A big brother's teasing turns a fearless little girl's beloved dentist visit into a day of dread - until Dr. Graves finds out.

FP03 The New Kid in Town A lonely girl who's tired of always being the new kid meets a stranger in Odyssey who isn't quite what he seems.

FP04 No Stupid Questions A curious ten-year-old girl who's been banished from her mother's workplace for asking too many questions finds an unlikely afternoon home at Whit's End - and an even unlikelier friend at the library.

FP05 You're Not Going to Believe This When the family's most notorious storyteller swears his latest outlandish tale is true, his skeptical cousin has to decide whether anyone can believe the boy who's fibbed one time too many.

FP06 My Brother's Keeper When Philip's pesky little brother ruins his school project and embarrasses him at baseball practice, an angry wish spoken in the heat of the moment teaches him how much a brother is worth.

FP07 While Dad's Away A father's dream promotion slowly turns him into a stranger in his own home - and a curious young couple wants to know why the house is selling so cheap.

FP08 The Letter A prideful father and his embarrassed teenage daughter, wounded by each other's words, discover what it takes to close the distance between them.

FP09 A Different Kind of Peer Pressure When his father lectures teenage Blair about caving to the popularity crowd, Richard Hudson discovers that peer pressure isn't something adults outgrow - it's something they get better at.

FP10 In Memory of Herman When a backyard frog funeral reignites a couple's clash over faith, it takes an ordinary workday turned upside down to make a stubborn husband reconsider everything he thought he knew.

1 of 2 FP11 A Member of the Family When Whit's spoiled nine-year-old grandson arrives in Odyssey for the summer, the old man's patience - and his ideas about love and discipline - are put to the test.

2 of 2 FP12 A Member of the Family A week with Grandpa ends in turmoil as Whit and his daughter Jana must face the anger that has divided them for years - before it costs them Monty.

FP13 A Simple Addition When his baby sister arrives before his promised new boots do, a little boy must learn that a growing family doesn't mean a shrinking share of love.

0001 Whit's Flop After a humiliating Little League loss cements his reputation as the kid who ruins everything, young Davey Holcomb is challenged by Whit to unravel the mystery of a failed invention called "Whit's Flop."

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