The Girl In The Steel Corset
Sixteen-year-old Finley, a lady's maid in 1897 England, is forced to leave yet another job when the dark "thing" inside her knocks out the brutal son of her employer, and she is taken in by Griffin King, the orphaned Duke of Greythorne, who sees the magical darkness inside Finley and enlists her to join his little group of misfits in a quest to bring down the mastermind behind a rash of crimes committed by automatons.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: girls, teenagers [X], supernatural, robots, fantasy fiction, london (england), young women, nobility, criminals [X], automata, mystery fiction [X]
Cold Springs
Chadwick, a former middle school teacher, gives up his job after the drug-related death of his daughter to dedicate himself to rescuing troubled teens, but he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past when he becomes involved in the life of Mallory, a fifteen-year-old wanted for questioning in a brutal murder--who just happens to be the child his daughter was babysitting the night she died.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: problem youth, teenage girls, wilderness survival, fugitives from justice, texas, mystery fiction [X], adventure fiction, youth, teenagers [X], girls, criminals [X], adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, suspense fiction