Angell, Judie

Shirley Holmes is the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes, and she'll stop at nothing to solve a mystery. Using all the cunning and logic of her famed ancestor, Shirley investigates two cases.

Upset and angry that her mother has separated from her drug addict father and may divorce him, Nicki spends her early teen years dropping in and out of school and trying to find a life for herself.

With the assistance of Bo, her classmate at Sussex Academy, twelve-year-old Shirley proves her skill at solving crimes in the same manner as her ancestor, the legendary Sherlock Holmes.

Grief-stricken after the mid-air collision of her parents' planes leaves her an orphan, Sue Sudley moves to her aunt's small mid-western town where she hopes to become "a real teenager.".

Shirley plans to run a catering business as a summer money-making enterprise, but her determination to keep it a secret from her mother causes some complicated situations.

Fifteen-year-old Lucy is apprehensive about leaving the city for the country when her parents decide to run an inn on the New England coast.

When Emma's sixteen-year-old boyfriend steps inside an old box in her father's magic shop and becomes invisible, they become involved in bringing him back to visibility.

When the Muchmore children start taking in stray animals, their parents are at first good-humored, but then the town animal shelter closes, business booms, their parents become impatient, and the children operate their haven in secret.

Six parentless kids ranging in age from 5 to 18 run away from the orphanage and, as a family, successfully establish a household miles away until local do-gooders begin investigating.