Like his mother, Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.

Aurelie Bonhoffen, who has grown up in the circus, discovers a remarkable family secret on her twelfth birthday that may help in dealing with a sinister man who wants to take over her family's pier.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London, use clues from their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook to help classmate Alice Banders, who goes missing following the announcement that she will be crowned queen of Borogovia after her thirteenth birthday.

A well-to-do little mouse, exploring on her own, experiences both pleasant and frightening adventures before she is safely home again.

Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil.

While visiting Friendship House, Josie learns that Hope's new home is in danger of closing. Josie notices a young girl named Bailey, who loves spending time at the stables. The little girl is very attached to Hope-her only friend. Determined to figure out why the girl is so troubled. Josie decides tovisit more often. She must figure out how to help Bailey and save Friendship House before it is too late.

Five years after seventeen-year-old Rose's mother and Joshua's father disappeared, when the step-siblings reconnect in London, Rose witnesses two murders which she fears are linked to coded notebooks Joshua has found and his investigation of the disappearance.

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.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister who are living in England, use clues from their ancestor Sherlock Holmes' casebook when they are asked by a classmate to find an ancient Egyptian artifact that has been missing for many years.