After the death of his idolized older brother, twelve-year-old Isaac's relationship with his horse dealer father grows even worse as he sees his father's obsession with hatred poison their family's life.
When the Bramble family moves to a new home in northern England, they engage a woman for home help and become convinced that she is from a different time and place.
Unsure whether they will like their new home in Cheshire, three children soon become involved with a visually handicapped schoolmate and the restoration of a British manor house.
A fourteen-year-old orphan with a mysterious past is sentenced to death during the turmoil of building the first cross-country canal in eighteenth-century England.
Erica, a lover of motorcycles, finds her country holiday dreary until she runs into a cat with false teeth, new friends with interesting names, and a lot of motorcycles.
When their father is captured during the war, three children come to London to live with their grandmother, and join all the cousins of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
All the Heath children become interested in tennis and lazy Nicky turns out to be the best player of all, so the family tries to get her to enter a tennis championship.
