After losing his father, and the removal of the object of his affections, Irene Doyle, to America, young Sherlock Holmes seeks the help of his brother Mycroft to put an end to the villainy of his enemy the Malefactor.
A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy to Stephenie Meyer's Bella and Edward, a quiz, additional facts about Jane Austen, and more.
British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.
In an alternate London, where witches are registered and allowed to practice, Lucas and Glory, young members of WICA (Witchkind Intelligence and Covert Affairs), are assigned to infiltrate the witch-terrorist organization called Endor but what Glory really wants is to solve the mystery of her missing mother.
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
English students Shauna, Sonny, and Mildred, who are trying to keep an old woman from losing her home, and Charlotte, Linton, and Jack, who are trying to lift a curse placed on the owner of a football stadium, find their investigations intersecting.
