Eric Wu has discovered that his new school is actually a converted hunting lodge complete with dead animals decorating the walls. Why is he attending 6th grade at a hunting lodge? What happened to the owner and why are the adults so secretive about it? Help comes in the form an enormous black bird, which brings gifts and clues to Eric's window ledge at night. Eric and his friends have to try to figure out what it all means. When the bird leaves a key on his ledge, Eric realizes he has to solve the biggest mystery of all