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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At the height of Victorian London's obsession with Spiritualism, the city's premier medium, Mrs. Violet Woods, while a newspaperman works to expose false mediums across London, takes in a girl with an uncanny talent for the craft to spice up her brand, which could lead to her downfall.
Mrs. Violet Wood is London's premier medium. Her ambition and work ethic are relentless, and her unique abilities have earned her quite the reputation among London's...
162) Curiosity
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors andhis own safety.
163) Rift
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order's true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.
164) How to catch a bogle
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
165) A Templar's gifts
Author
Series
Book of Tormod volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
As the Chosen, Tormod knows he will have all the Gifts heaven and earth can bestow, but he still struggles to gain control of his visions and powers as men of the French King seek the relics he is bound to protect.
166) My year abroad
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
167) The last bogler
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Ned Roach becomes a bogler's apprentice as Victorian London seeks to banish its bogle infestation once and for all in this conclusion to the trilogy featuring young assistants to Victorian London's best monster catcher, Alfred Bunce.
168) Saw III
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
169) Never satisfied
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
"The competition to become the new city Representative--a magician who serves the magistration and protects the people from monstrous husks--is fierce. Eight young apprentices and their animal familiars are vying for the role, while behind the scenes, corrupt officials work to ensure their favored contestants make it to the next round. Lucy Marlowe wants the job more than anything. A win would show their master that they aren't a worthless waste of...
Author
Series
Publisher
An Oni Press Publication
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 440L
Language
English
Description
After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.
171) Lilliput
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Three-inch-tall Lily has been trapped in a bird cage for half of her life while her giant captor, Gulliver, writes a book about his travels but she finally escapes and, aided by a clockmaker's apprentice and his friends, makes plans to leave London and return home to Lilliput. Inspired by Jonathan Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Darren is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and get tickets. Steve and Darren think that it is all a joke until a vampire named Larten Crepsley comes on stage with a very poisonous spider that he makes do tricks. Steve tells Larten he would like to join him and become an apprentice.
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...
174) Barnaby Rudge
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
The "No Popery" or Gordon Riots of 1780 include orgies and fires and Lord George Gordon as a major figure.
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 ..."--
176) The age of light
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray....
177) 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...
179) 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...
