I love the BBC television series Sherlock. When I spied a new movie about Sherlock's little sister Enola, I immediately added it to our list. Then I discovered that the movie was based on a middle grade series.
When Enola Holmes's mother disappears on the morning of her fourteenth birthday, she feels abandoned but also compelled to search for her. Through ciphers, her mother gives her clues and lots of cash! Unfortunately, Enola's brothers, Mycroft and Sherlock, view her as incompetent and unintelligent because she is female. Mycroft decides she needs to attend a finishing school. To escape this awful fate, she schemes and flees in the middle of the night. With clever disguises and intellect, she eludes her brothers, the Scotland Yard and criminals. Along the way she encounters a young Marquess from Basilwether who is presumed kidnapped. She finds him, but not her mother. Her search for her mother continues in other books in the series.
I think I like the movie better than the book. The actress, Millie Bobby Brown, who portrays Enola, is a fabulous actress.
Warning: Prostitutes and "ladies of the night" are mentioned and sprinkled throughout. I realize that they were part of the setting and culture in London, but not necessary to include in a middle grade novel.
-Borrowed from the library.
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