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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
11-year-old Forrest lives at the Tower of London prison, where his father tends the Tower ravens and guards inmates. Forrest's only friends are his pet raven, his father's prisoners (who all end up dead), and Ned, the young rat catcher. Soon Forrest's father gets a new prisoner: Maddie, the beautiful daughter of a Scottish spy. Immediately Forrest and Maddie become friends. But when she is slated for execution, Forrest must make some painful choices:...
3) Wormwood
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta, struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blake's possession that would enable them to carry out an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role.
Author
Publisher
Corgi Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
A tale of adventure, deception, and murder set in 1716 London finds young Tom Marlowe and his eccentric mentor, Dr. Josiah Harker, on the trail of the mysterious highwayman known as the "White Rider, " a vicious robber that kills his victims simply by pointing at them.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After printing the "Wanted" posters for some of London's most notorious inhabitants, a printer's boy is entangled, by a genuine convict, in a series of mistaken identities and events leading back to the boy's own mysterious past.
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With daily beheadings and famous buildings being burnt to the ground, Paris during the Revolution is not the safest place to be. When Dr Manette is released from prison and reunited with his daughter, everything seems to finally be getting better. But his daughter's fianč is keeping some dangerous secrets that lead the family on a deadly adventure. How long can 'happy ever after' really last?
8) Tangled webs
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1725 London, Lady A is a seventeen-year-old orphan named Arista who trades in secrets and lives in fear of her abusive master, having to pass herself off as a boy to move safely through London's criminal underworld, but everything changes when she meets Grae Sinclair, who loves Arista for who she is and promises to help her escape the life of crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While staying at the seaside, Catherine "Cat" Royal and her friends are captured and pressed into service in the British Navy and Cat, once again disguised as a boy, travels to the New World with survival her only goal.