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Author
Series
Clock striker volume 1
Publisher
Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quatro Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Clock Striker follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her tools, no one in her small town ever realizes their dreams. Besides, these legendary warrior engineers haven't been seen in years and were never known for having female members. Fortunately, Cast meets one surviving member named...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1668. When printer's apprentice Lucy Campion comes to the aid of a desperate young ragpicker, arrested for graverobbing, little does she suspect that the meeting will have unexpected consequences. For when Mercy finds a dead woman in the ruins of Christchurch, dressed in unexpected finery, it's to Lucy who she turns for help ..."--
143) Endymion Spring
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenberg's mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Murder always sells. But when a series of dark and puzzling crimes takes place in seventeenth-century London, will printer's apprentice Lucy Campion be publishing the news - or starring in it? London, 1667. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is unsettled when, on a frozen December morning after church, an elderly woman dressed in mourning clothes whispers an ominous warning in her ear. Lucy sternly tells herself it's nonsense, but then her much-loved...
145) Portrait of a lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After the deaths of two female servants, Leonardo da Vinci asks his apprentice, Dino, to go undercover disguised as a woman in the service of the Duke's ward. The task should prove easy since "Dino" is in reality Delfina, a young woman masquerading as a boy to serve as Leonardo's apprentice. But complications in the case soon have the young apprentice torn between her loyalty to Leonardo and her growing feelings for a captain of the Duke's guard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News, printer's apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads - and to the old hanging tree. She doesn't believe in ghosts, but she's not sure ghosts don't believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads, she's knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Former knight and nobleman Crispin Guest, now surviving as a detective in 14th century London, agrees to track down stolen parchments possibly connected with a series of brutal murders for a Jewish physician attending the Queen.
Author
Publisher
Serres, [an impint of] Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Como se las apañará el joven escudero Cole cuando tenga que enfrentarse al temible dragón en calzoncillos?"--
"When a dragon wearing very large underwear threatens the kingdom the Knights of the Round Table run away, leaving Sir Percival's young assistant, Cole, to face the beast."--
149) The brothers story
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and the mistreatment of his simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex.
150) Sorceline
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Sorceline has had a knack for the study of mythical creatures. Now a student at Professor Archibald Balzar's prestigious school of cryptozoology, she's eager to test her skills and earn a spot as one of Balzar's apprentices. But for all her knowledge of gorgons, vampires, and griffins, Sorceline is mystified by her fellow humans. While she excels in her studies, she quickly clashes with her classmates, revealing her...
151) Lily the thief
Author
Publisher
First second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 400L
Language
English
Description
"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods -- a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The 18th century. In a monastery in the North of Spain hides the sacred temple of the Knights of Heliopolis: an assembly of immortal alchemists cut off from the world. As disciple Seventeen prepares to complete his training and integrate order, his master Fulcanelli reveals to the other knights the terrible secret of his origins - Seventeen is actually the hidden son of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette! Will the young heir claim the throne or...
154) Dragonborn
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
The great wizard Flaxfield's death leaves his twelve-year-old apprentice Sam half-trained, but when other wizards gather and debate his fate Sam, not knowing whom to trust, leaves with only his dragon, Starback, for company, unaware of the perils he must face.
155) Fireborn
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Companion to: Dragonborn.
When an old, dying wizard steals magic from his twelve-year-old apprentice, Bee, and releases a new, wild magic into the world, another apprentice, Cabbage, sets out to find Bee and try to set things right again.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 4
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Young Lemony Snicket investigates when the nightly train that goes to the city is instead redirected to a mysterious alternate location.
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the first of four volumes, Lemony Snicket recounts the time he spent as a young man in a fading town under the care of a dubious chaperone. Navigating the mysteries of childhood can be difficult, and for Lemony Snicket, the tangled plots that surround him include a missing father, a flooding basement, suspiciously young taxi drivers, a stolen statue, a peculiar librarian, and more information than is necessary about a secret organization"--www.amazon.com....
Author
Series
Tea Dragon volume 3
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to create something spectacular enough to impress a master blacksmith in search of an apprentice, she questions the true meaning of crafting, and the true meaning of caring for someone in grief. Meanwhile, Minette receives a surprise package from the monastery where she was once training...