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    Exploring the first half of Nancy Springer's brilliant detective series about Sherlock's resourceful younger sister who outsmarts Victorian London's dangers and expectations.

    Half the Story: Enola Holmes Mysteries

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    The Victorian era's biggest blind spot—the assumption that women and girls were intellectually inferior—became Enola's superpower. She can hide in plain sight because nobody expects a fourteen-year-old girl to be capable of complex reasoning.

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    When Mothers Mysteriously Vanish

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    Brothers as Obstacles, Not Allies

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