Five twelve-year-old friends from a Beehive church group in California go to work as hostesses on an historical farm in Utah and are caught up in the mystery of a young girl who disappeared in the 1920s.

The Bee Theres try to find ways to earn money so that they can go to summer camp, while Marybeth worries that camping will expose her secret fear of the dark.

Bonnnie, a twelve-year-old Mormon girl, hopes that her ideas for the ward Halloween party will get her into the popular girls' club the Bee Theres, but the situation is complicated by a mummy in her backyard.