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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

Two friends convert an old air-raid shelter into a den and help an old woman, who teaches them sign language and herbal medicine, to overcome her painful memories of World War II.

Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn't want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

Two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love finally triumphs.

Tells the story of the Keeling family, from World War II to the present, relating the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.

Gideon is sixteen-years-old, deaf, and unable to speak. A friend finds him work on a canal barge. All is well until the day he takes the initiative.

Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Henry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle and at school.