A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories, england [X], misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics [X], poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england), scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds, poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
Great Expectations
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 880
subjects: orphans, coming of age, cartoons and comics [X], great britain, dickens, charles, young men, bildungsromans, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, england [X]
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, child labor, boys, stepfathers, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics [X], great britain, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, men, london (england), aunts, historical fiction, bildungsromane, autobiographical fiction, bildungsromans, electronic books
Artemis Fowl
While preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank, Artemis Fowl has no idea that Opal Koboi has cloned herself and escaped from jail, leaving only Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechon fairy police to save Artemis before Opal seeks revenge on him.
741.5
year: 2014
copies: 135
call number/section: 741.5
lexile: 460
subjects: fairies, kidnapping, magic, mothers and sons, england [X], colfer, eoin, fathers and sons, fowl, artemis (fictitious character), adventure fiction, fantasy fiction, comic books, strips, etc, mother-son relationship, fantasy, cartoons and comics [X], fantasy comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, computers, adventure and adventurers, graphic novels
Stormbreaker
Presents a graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's novel in which fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his deceased uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, M16.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: rider, alex (fictitious character), terrorism, orphans, spy stories, cartoons and comics [X], england [X]
Jane Eyre
Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with her melancholy employer, Mr.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 100
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: man-woman relationships, governesses, man-woman relationship, love stories, england [X], bronte, charlotte, country homes, mentally ill women, upper class, charity-schools, dating, bildungsromans, cartoons and comics [X], fathers and daughters, married people, mayor?a de edad, relaciones hombre-mujer, institutrizes, coming of age, spanish language materials, inglaterra, bildungsromans, romance fiction, love stories, electronic books, eyre, jane, young women, orphans
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england [X], dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks, bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics [X], conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
Artemis Fowl
Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 132
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: fairies, kidnapping, magic, fathers and sons, fantasy, england [X], father-son relationship, comic books, strips, etc, fowl, artemis (fictitious character), fowl, artemis (fictional character), organized crime, fantasy fiction, mothers and sons, mother-son relationship, children's stories, children's stories, fowl, artemis, fantasy comic books, strips, etc, cartoons and comics [X], fantasy graphic novels, fantasy comics, comics adaptations, graphic novels, french language
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, criminals, london (england), bildungsromans, england fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics [X], 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
D. Gray-man
"After a savage battle, Allen and the Millennium Earl, leader of the akuma, confront each other--not as themselves, but as mysterious entities that came into being as seeming twin brothers during an even more mysterious episode in the Earl's past.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 176
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: demonology, fantasy graphic novels, graphic novels, shonen manga, manga, great britain, soul, good and evil, england [X], horror comics, graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, horror tales, teenagers, horror comic books, strips, etc, quests (expeditions), horror comic books, strips, etc, exorcism, cartoons and comics [X]
The Amulet Of Samarkand
A graphic novel adaptation of the book in which Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: stroud, jonathan, magic, wizards, apprentices, fantasy graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, london (england), england [X], graphic novels, fantasy, cartoons and comics [X], fantasy comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels
Hellsing
The Hellsing Agency, a secret organization of vampires and mercenaries created by English royalty to deal with the undead and other monsters, is faced with the prospect of teaming up with the Catholic Iscariot group when they learn the Nazis are about to make a bid for world dominance using an army of vampires.
741.5
year: 2010
copies: 59
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: vampires, monsters, comic books, strips, etc, england [X], gothic novels, horror graphic novels, manga, graphic novels, gothic fiction, horror comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, horror tales, cartoons and comics [X], horror fiction
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
A graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey, " set in England, in which innocent young Catherine Morland, fresh from the country, enters into Bath society with dreams and fantasies sparked by her love of gothic romance novels, which makes it difficult for her to distinguish between fact and fiction when she meets dashing Henry Tilney.
741.5
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: austen, jane, young women, books and reading, comic books, strips, etc, cartoons and comics [X], graphic novels, england [X]
Emma 3
While returning to her hometown, Emma finds employment through Tasha, a maid working for a wealthy local family, but finds herself unprepared for the realities of the rich life.
741.5
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: comic books, strips, etc, household employees, cartoons and comics [X], social classes, man-woman relationship, england [X]
Emma 6
William is surprised when, after breaking off his engagement to Eleanor so that he can be with her maid, Emma, Eleanor's parents react calmly, but he soon realizes they have put into motion a dangerous plan to keep William and Emma apart at any cost.
741.5
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: 741.5
lexile:
subjects: comic books, strips, etc, love stories, cartoons and comics [X], love, social classes, england [X]