Author(s): E. Nesbit

Children's & YA

Roberta, better known as Bobbie, and her younger brother, Peter, and little sister Phyllis, were very happy living in a comfortable house surrounded by a cook and servants and two loving parents. One evening there was a knock on the door and their father was mysteriously taken away by two men. Suddenly alone, their mother moves the family to a small cottage in the countyside. There the children begin a series of exciting adventures, from saving a train full of passengers from a landslide, to rescuing a baby from a fire to aiding a penniless Russian exile, to eventually unraveling the mystery of their father's disappearance.