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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.

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Edith Nesbit was born in London, she lost her father when she was four. She unhappily attended boarding schools in England before moving, aged nine, to live in France and Germany. The family returned to London in 1872. By her late teens she had published numerous poems. She married in 1880. Nesbit's output was prolific, she published about 40 books for children. According to her biographer. Julia Briggs, Nesbit was the first modern writer for children. Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the chidren's adventure story.

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