Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown, assists the police force with ten insoluble cases. Solutions are at the back of the book.
The solution to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
While sailing a sloop to St. Thomas, sixteen-year-old Lisa Maddock is knocked overboard and finds herself on an unknown island where she meets ten-year-old Amelia Earhart who has been snatched from the past as part of a fantastic experiment.
Endowed with an extraordinary power by an ancient African elephant, sixteen-year-old Ashur Fine finds himself relying on it as he tries to bring his aunt's mugger to justice.
The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia solves ten neighborhood mysteries, with the solutions given at the back of the book to enable the reader to compare his skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.