Theodosia And The Staff Of Osiris
Theodosia Throckmorton is shocked when she encounters Mr. Tetley at a museum benefit, knowing his appearance can only mean the Serpents of Chaos are back, leaving Theodosia to face secret societies, evil curses, and dark magic.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: mummies, museums, magic, blessing and cursing, family, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
The Case Of The Bizarre Bouquets
Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, disguised as a beautiful woman, finds clues in floral bouquets as she searches for the missing Doctor Watson, a companion of her famous older brother, Sherlock.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 64
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1080
subjects: missing persons, flower language, characters and characteristics in literature, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
The Diamond Of Drury Lane
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
Archie's War My Scrapbook Of The First World War, 1914-1918
When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: diaries, grief, world war, 1914-1918, toy and movable books, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Cat Among The Pigeons
Catherine "Cat" Royal, an orphan who lives at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, rallies her friends to try to save Pedro from the clutches of Mr.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
The Prince And The Pauper
Young Tom is a pauper, doomed to wander the streets begging for crusts.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: edward, princes, poor, lookalikes, adventure and adventurers fiction, england fiction, false personation, england, impostors and imposture, boys, london (england) [X], fiction, mistaken identity, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adapted, princes and princesses, great britain [X], historical fiction, edward vi, king of england, twain, mark, 1835-1910, poor children, adventure stories, edward vi, king of england, social classes, kings, queens, rulers, etc, historical fiction
The Stolen One
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: elizabeth, orphans, individuality, country life, city and town life, london (england) [X], great britain [X], identity, historical fiction, identity (philosophical concept), historical fiction
The Case Of The Cryptic Crinoline
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1120
subjects: nightingale, florence, missing persons, characters and characteristics in literature, characters in literature, mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Distant Waves
In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: tesla, nikola, astor, john jacob, stead, w. t, spiritualists, sisters, mothers and daughters, inventors, new york (state), london (england) [X], great britain [X], mother-daughter relationship, historical fiction, inventors - ficiton, mothers and daughters - fiction, sisters - fiction, spiritualists - fiction
Theodosia And The Eyes Of Horus
Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: museums, magic, blessing and cursing, families, london (england) [X], great britain [X], adventure stories
A Spy In The House
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: women detectives, swindlers and swindling, household employees, sex role, orphans, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Alchemy And Meggy Swann
Meggy Swann, a girl who walks with the aid of two sticks, arrives in Elizabethan London, along with her goose Louise, to stay with her father who really does not want her, and while he pursues his dream of transforming base metal into gold, Meggy undergoes a transformation herself.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: people with disabilities, alchemy, poverty, fathers and daughters, london (england) [X], great britain [X], handicapped, father-daughter relationship, historical fiction, historical fiction
The Case Of The Gypsy Good-bye
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: kidnapping, brothers and sisters, self-realization, characters and characteristics in literature, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
The Twin's Daughter
In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
The Body At The Tower
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760