The Hunchback Assignments
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: disfigured persons, supernatural, science fiction, spy stories, london (england) [X], great britain [X], paranormal fiction, spy stories, science fiction
The Haunting Of Charles Dickens
Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: dickens, charles, missing persons, authors, families, kidnapping, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Velvet
In Victorian London, orphaned Velvet leaves her backbreaking job in a steam laundry for the mysterious and exciting world of famed spiritualist Madame Savoya, who harbors dangerous secrets.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000
subjects: spiritualists, orphans, historical fiction, london (england) [X], great britain [X], historical fiction
Freaks
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: abnormalities, human, freak shows, mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], great britain [X], detective and mystery stories, birth defects, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
Clockwork Princess
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: supernatural, demonology, orphans, secret societies, london (england) [X], great britain [X], paranormal fiction, historical fiction, science fiction
The Incredible Charlotte Sycamore
Preferring adventure to an arranged marriage, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Queen Victoria's royal surgeon sneaks out to swordfight with two friends when the three are mauled by what looks like rabid dogs.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: victoria, rabies, conspiracies, adventure fiction, historical fiction, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Constable & Toop
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
A True And Faithful Narrative
In London in the 1680s, Meg--now sixteen years old--tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950
subjects: authorship, courtship, sex role, london (england) [X], great britain [X], large type books
The Black Canary
As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: essex, robert devereux, time travel, racially mixed people, singing, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
The Secret Room
When Adam enters a secret cupboard at his school, he is transported through time to 1942, into the middle of a World War II air raid.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
Ghost Soldiers
While investigating a haunted house, the Cannoiers discover a group of scientists who are creating an army of indestructible mutant soldiers to fight the Germans in pre-World War II London.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: monsters, haunted houses, horror stories, mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
The Alchemist's Cat
In 1664, Will Godwin arrives in London and, to escape punishment for a crime he didn't commit, becomes an assistant to a powerful and wicked alchemist, Elias Theophratus Spittle, but longs to flee his servitude.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
Return Of The Emerald Skull
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: messengers, supernatural, mysticism, boarding schools, schools, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Joe Rat
In the dark, dank sewers of Victorian London, a boy known as Joe Rat scrounges for valuables which he gives to "Mother," a criminal mastermind who considers him a favorite, but a chance meeting with a runaway girl and "the Madman" transforms all their lives.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: street life, runaway children, crime, mental illness, london (england) [X], great britain [X]
Legion Of The Dead
Barnaby Grimes, a boy who collects and delivers information throughout Victorian London, faces his biggest challenge yet when he is confronted by a horde of living corpses.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1080
subjects: messengers, zombies, mystery fiction, historical fiction, london (england) [X], great britain [X]