The Secret Garden
An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: gardens, physically handicapped, yorkshire (england), large type books, orphans, england, people with disabilities, great britain [X], loneliness, closed caption video recordings, orphans -, children, orphans-fiction, gardens-fiction, physically handicapped-fiction, yorkshire (england)-fiction, friendship, people with physical disabilities, children's stories, children with disabilities, children with physical disabilities, yorkshire, cousins, secrecy, secrets [X]
The Crowfield Curse
In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel, an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey, goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap, he discovers he has the ability to see fays and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: orphans, magic, secrets [X], monasteries, blessing and cursing, great britain [X], secrecy, historical fiction
Jane Eyre
A poor, unwanted orphan, Jane Eyre seems destined to live a sad and ordinary life.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1040
subjects: governesses, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, love stories, england, great britain [X], love, closed captioning, closed caption video recordings, dating (social customs), motion pictures, audiobooks, orphans, young women, country homes, married people, charity-schools, england, mentally ill women, england, bildungsromans, eyre, jane (fictional character), husbands, father-daughter relationship, fathers and daughters, love stories, bildungsromans, secrets [X], interpersonal relations, eyre, jane (fictitious character), electronic books, mentally ill
Set In Stone
The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: incest, identity (philosophical concept), problem families, secrets [X], great britain [X], historical fiction, family life, individuality, secrecy
Time Bomb
Now grown, Andy tells the story of the summer of 1949 when, embittered after enduring injustice at their English school and disappointed by the adults in their lives, he and his friends wrestle with thoughts of revenge and deal with several life-changing secrets.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Wentworth Hall
In 1912 England, eighteen-year-old Maggie Darlington returns from France to learn that her father hopes to restore the family fortunes through her marriage and his guardianship of two orphaned teens, but scandalous satires in the newspaper threaten to spoil his plans and reveal the family's many secrets.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: juvenile fiction / social issues / dating & sex, juvenile fiction / social issues / emotions & feelings, juvenile fiction / historical / europe, historical fiction, secrets [X], great britain [X]
Manor Of Secrets
Beautiful, wealthy, and sheltered Lady Charlotte Edmonds, sixteen, and hardworking, clever kitchen maid Janie Seward are both ready for change, and as their paths overlap in The Manor, rules are broken and secrets revealed that will alter the course of their lives forever.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: identity (philosophical concept), social classes, identity, secrets [X], great britain [X], england
The Outlaw Of Sherwood Forest
Their latest adventure takes teenagers Dawkins and Hypatia back to thirteenth-century Nottingham and Sherwood Forest, but when they find a time-traveling device in a cave they find themselves far in the future--and closer to the forces that are tampering with time.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: time travel, siblings, conspiracies, adventure fiction, science fiction, sherwood forest (england), great britain [X], adventure and adventurers, secrets [X], brothers and sisters
The Dark Days Club
"In April 1812, as she is preparing for her debut presentation to Queen Charlotte, Lady Helen Wrexhall finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy reaching to the very top of society, and learns the truth about her mother, who died ten years ago"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: charlotte, courts and courtiers, conspiracies, secrets [X], supernatural, london (england), great britain [X], secrecy, paranormal fiction, paranormal fiction, electronic books, electronic books
Tangled Webs
In 1725 London, seventeen-year-old orphan Arista lives in fear of her abusive master, but she leads a double life as Lady A, a blackmailer who trades in the secrets of High Society and has to pass herself off as a boy to move safely through London's criminal underworld.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans, criminals, secrecy, london (england), great britain [X], romance fiction, historical fiction, action and adventure fiction, secrets [X]
The Dark Days Deceit
"Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: courts and courtiers, sex role, secrecy, demonology, secrets [X], great britain [X], paranormal fiction
Among The Fallen
In Victorian England, sixteen-year-old Orpha, imprisoned for crimes she did not commit, is released upon accepting the invitation of Charles Dickens for a fresh start at a home for fallen women.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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The Case Of The Perilous Palace
"The history-mystery-science series concludes as the Wollstonecraft Detectives--Ada Byron Lovelace and Mary Shelley--take on a case by royal request.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: shelley, mary wollstonecraft, lovelace, ada king, victoria, kensington palace (london, england), secrecy, secrets [X], london (england), great britain [X], detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction
Kate's Story, 1914
At the end of June in 1914, Beth Etheridge is traveling to visit her cousin Kate at Vandermeer Manor in Rhode Island, where Kate will receive the heirloom "Katherine" necklace, but Beth is ordered to return home when the news arrives of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the cousins decide to hide Beth in the a haunted wing of the manor where they discover more family secrets.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cousins, haunted houses, secrecy, family secrets, secrets [X], historical fiction, rhode island, united states, great britain [X], historical fiction
Most Ardently
Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: transgender people, secrecy, families, interpersonal relations, secrets [X], family life, love, great britain [X], romance fiction, historical fiction, transgender fiction, adaptations