David Copperfield
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: recitations, young men, england [X], character studies fiction, london fiction, great britain fiction, children, orphans [X], child labor, boys, stepfathers, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, great britain, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, men, london (england) [X], aunts, historical fiction, bildungsromane, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, electronic books
The Hidden Gallery
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: governesses, feral children, orphans [X], blessing and cursing, london (england) [X], england [X], wild children, magic, adventure fiction
Scorpia
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 129
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
Fever Crumb
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000
subjects: identity (psychology), sex role, technology, foundlings, science fiction, london (england) [X], england [X], orphans [X], identity
Scorpia Rising
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 93
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
The Unseen Guest
After returning from London, the three Incorrigible children and their governess, Miss Penelope Lumley, resume their normal routine while Penelope continues to uncover information about her past.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: children's secrets, feral children, governesses, orphans [X], england [X], london (england) [X], secrecy, secrets, wild children, humorous fiction
The Interrupted Tale
Miss Penelope Lumley, governess to the three Incorrigible children who were raised by wolves, is invited to speak at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: orphans [X], london (england) [X], governesses, feral children, schools, wild children, school stories, england [X], humorous fiction
Clockwork Prince
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: supernatural, demonology, orphans [X], secret societies, identity (philosophical concept), london (england) [X], great britain, paranormal fiction, england [X]
Oliver Twist
After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 71
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: orphans [X], criminals, london (england) [X], bildungsromans, england fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, comic books, strips, etc, poor children, kidnapping victims, delitos, hu?rfanos, spanish language materials, londres (inglaterra), readers, english language, england [X], great britain, robbers and outlaws, identity (psychology), boys, old english novel, robbers and outlaws-fiction, orphans-fiction, england-fiction, cartoons and caricatures, thieves, social conditions, london, england, poverty, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, london
A Temptation Of Angels
After seeing her parents murdered, sixteen-year-old Helen Cartwright learns she is one of three remaining angelic descendents charged with protecting the world, but nothing can save her from being torn between new friend and fellow Keeper Griffin and childhood friend Raum, who has joined forces with her parents' killers.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
A Little Princess
When a young girl in a London boarding school is impoverished by her father's death and made to work as a servant, she struggles to remain a "little princess" on the inside, no matter what her position.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Wild Boy
"Wild Boy, covered in hair from head to toe, becomes a sideshow freak.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
Wild Boy & The Black Terror
Wild Boy and Clarissa have solved mysteries with the help of their mentor Marcus--a member of a secret league of crime-solving gentlemen--but when he is poisoned, the former sideshow freak and acrobat must race to find the culprit and a cure.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, orphans [X], hypertrichosis, freak shows, england [X], london (england) [X], homicide
Great Expectations
A manga adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: dickens, charles, orphans [X], man-woman relationships, benefactors, coming of age, cartoons and comics, england [X], bildungsromans, graphic novels, young men, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, revenge, graphic novels, london (england) [X], electronic books
The Unmapped Sea
"Lord Fredrick Ashton may not feel ready to be a father, but with a little Ashton on the way, he's sure about one thing: The wolfish curse on his family must end soon, before the child is born.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: orphans [X], vacations, brighton (england), feral children, blessings and cursing, wild children, school stories, governesses, london (england) [X], england [X], humorous fiction