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 [X], people with disabilities, great britain, 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]
Triskellion
After their parents' divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent to live with their grandmother in the English village of Triskellion, where they find danger and paranormal activity as they discover hidden secrets that some will kill to keep buried.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: brothers and sisters, secrecy, villages, secrets [X], england [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction, family, family life, twins
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, england [X], london (england), secrecy, secrets [X], wild children, humorous 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 [X], great britain, 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
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, england [X]
Unbecoming
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: grandmothers, brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters, family secrets, alzheimer's disease, england [X], families, family life, secrets [X], mother-daughter relationship, siblings
The Glass Republic
When her mirror sister, Parva, a twin confined to the subterranean world beneath London, populated by amazing creatures and terrible danger, is abducted, disfigured Pen Khan, burdened by a life of secrets, makes a terrible bargain for the means to track her down.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, monsters, disfigured persons, beauty, personal, kidnapping, twins, sisters, muslims, secrets [X], personal appearance, london (england), england [X], fantasy fiction
Hyacinth And The Secrets Beneath
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: underground areas, secrets [X], magic, secrecy, england [X], london (england), fantasy fiction
The Freemason's Daughter
Jenna's small clan has risked their lives traveling the countryside as masons, secretly drumming up support and arms for the exiled King James Stuart to retake the British throne.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: freemasons, family life, secrets [X], fathers and daughters, loyalty, man-woman relationships, jacobites, clans, families, family secrets, england [X], historical fiction
Beth's Story, 1914
Beth is excited for her twelfth birthday, when she will receive her great-grandmother's heirloom necklace as a gift, but when the necklace goes missing, Beth must learn the secrets of her manor house in order to clear the name of her maid and friend, Shannon.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: heirlooms, secrecy, cousins, secrets [X], diaries, historical fiction, mystery and detective stories, england [X], diary fiction, historical fiction, mystery fiction
Cordially Uninvited
Claire is invited to serve as a junior bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, a commoner, to the Prince of England, and she learns that another, social-climbing junior bridesmaid is trying to keep the wedding from happening.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: weddings, bridesmaids, kings and rulers, secrets [X], cousins, england [X], london (england)
The Haunting
"The only life 12-year-old Emily has ever known is the cold, unloved existence of being an orphan.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adopted children, haunted houses, manors, family secrets, secrets [X], england [X], paranormal fiction, thrillers (fiction)
The Bookshop Girl
Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England, but the previous owner was hiding something nearly as big as Property's secret.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bookstores, families, literacy, secrecy, swindlers and swindling, foundlings, family life, secrets [X], england [X]
The Outlaws Scarlett And Browne
"Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, a bank robber and a sharp shooter--a girl of formidable skills.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: thieves, fugitives from justice, criminals, bank robberies, secrecy, monsters, adventure fiction, england [X], action and adventure fiction, fantasy fiction, outlaws, adventure stories, robbers and outlaws, secrets [X], adventure and adventurers, fantasy
Lock The Doors
Sixteen-year-old Tom Cavanagh--a survivor of past trauma who suffers from anxiety--befriends Alice, a new girl at his school and the former inhabitant of his home, hoping to rescue her from the secrets she seems to be concealing.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, kidnapping, families, secrets [X], family life, england [X], thrillers (fiction)