Nina Brown Baker

Nancy and Bernice Enfield leave their home in Chicago to move with their father to small town mansion left them by an eccentric Egyptologist great-uncle, so that Mr. Enfield can pursue his dream of writing a book. The girls soon discover that there is a mystery attached to the old house, and a hidden treasure if only they can find it.

Biography of a Civil War Heroine.

From the Middle West to Brooklyn Heights proved a wide span for two girls, during the summer their mother married again and went to London on a honeymoon. But the thrills of New York and the disfavor of Brooklyn's first families took second place when they stumbled on an old diary, a lost secret passage and a mystery.

Barbara and Molly Bronson move with their mother from New York to rural Pleasant Hill, where they board with Dr. Curtis, his granddaughter Ruth, and their servant Wang. When Wang is called home to China, he leaves Ruth with a riddle, and she and the sisters must immerse themselves in the history and literature of China to unravel it. Contains racial stereotypes typical of the period.

Describes the activities of famous and less well-known women who individually and in organized groups aided the struggle for independence.

Kathleen and Frances Forrester's summer starts off with two unexpected highlights: they befriend Mary Jane Smith, the sad, overworked orphan living in the mansion next door with her uncaring uncle and aunt, and their father returns from his job in China, bringing his new assistant, a worn out refugee of the Russian Revolution. Little do they realize how these events will set off a sequence of discoveries that change several lives forever.

Rosemary and Valerie meet at Hollingsworth Hall, a girl's school that is taking boarders for the summer; Rosemary's brother and Valerie's father are taking treatments at the nearby Sanitarium. After a rocky start, the girls become close friends as they learn the story of the princess from India who attended the school twenty years before, and set out to discover the fate of her lost treasure. Contains racial stereotypes typical of the period.