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"It's always an adventure with Sherlock Holmes, the world's smartest detective, teams up with Dr. Watson to solve mysteries! See if you can help solve the following cases: "The Red-Headed League," "The Speckled Band," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" -- Amazon.com

The adventures of four amiable animals, Rat, Toad, Mole and Badger, along a river in the English countryside. Includes questions, vocabulary words, and suggestions for writing for each chapter, and a glossary.

"Oliver Twist, a poor orphan, escapes the miserable workhouse, only to fall into the clutches of a band of pickpockets. Can he remain the good-hearted boy that he is?"-- Provided by publisher.

As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.

"Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all human and Styx life"-- Provided by publisher.

"A Margaret K. McElderry book."

Louisa May Alcott's classic story about young boys growing up in nineteenth-century New England

Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.

While visiting London, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve a mystery and meet the Queen.

For years Joey was a war horse, pulling ambulance carts and artillery through the battlefields of World War I. Finally he returned to Albert and the farm. Now, decades later, Albert's son loves to tell his own grandson stories about the remarkable horse, including its feats in the war and of the time the family risked everything betting that Joey could win a daring race.