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Hetty Feather

Jacqueline Wilson · 309 pages

A wonderful and original Jacqueline Wilson novel, featuring Hetty Feather(who is a bitch), a Victorian Tracy Beaker!London, 1876 and Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children – but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school.Life in the countryside is hard but with her 'br

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Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken · 245 pages

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A Matter of Magic

Patricia C. Wrede · 448 pages

When a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into a traveling magician's wagon, Kim doesn't hesitate. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London, Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. A hard life and lean times have schooled her in one lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But when the magician catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for. Until he su

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The Case of the Missing Marquess

Nancy Springer · 216 pages

When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece

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The BFG

Roald Dahl · 208 pages

This book is a great book for all ages. It is a fantasy/adventure book.The BFG stands for 'Big Friendly Giant'. He isn't like other giants, instead of going out to different countries to eat children he catches dreams. When he find's a little orphan girl watching him, he kidnaps her because he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was there, but when they arrive at giant's land they become frien

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The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber, on her Way to Botany Bay

L.A. Meyer

Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the *Lorelei Lee* to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia. To add insult to injury, the *Lorelei Lee* is confiscated to ca

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The Hidden Gallery

Maryrose Wood · 313 pages

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.

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The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

Deborah Hopkinson · 249 pages

Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854. Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water and not poisonous air when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.

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Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Michael Morpurgo · 263 pages

The novel has two parts. The first follows Arthur Hobhouse's story, and the second follows the story of his daughter Allie.

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The Devil and His Boy

Anthony Horowitz · 182 pages

Tom Falconer is in trouble. Pursued by the notorious criminal Ratsey, Tom soon finds himself alone and hungry on the streets of London. Luckily enough, the mysterious Dr. Mobius soon recruits Tom to play an important role in a play to be performed in front of Queen Elizabeth. Tom knows there's something not right about Mobius, but he's willing to take a risk in order to keep his neck out of Ratsey

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The Misadventures of Maude March

Audrey Couloumbis · 295 pages

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The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary L. Blackwood · 216 pages

Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, vill

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West of the Moon

Margi Preus · 226 pages

In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America. In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goat herder, dreams of joining her father in America. The plot contains violence and sexual references.

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How to Catch a Bogle

Catherine Jinks · 335 pages

In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.

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The Convicts

Iain Lawrence · 198 pages

After seeing his father hauled off to debtor's prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his family's misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a blind man who scavenges the riverbed for treasure--and wants what Tom digs up; Worms, a body snatcher who reveals a shocking surprise; and a nasty gang of

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Palace of Spies

Sarah Zettel · 367 pages

In 1716 London, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl from a good family impersonates a lady-in-waiting only to discover that the real girl was murdered, the court harbors a nest of spies, and the handsome young artist who is helping her solve the mystery might be a spy himself.

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Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis · 249 pages

It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but

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A Murderous Relation

Deanna Raybourn · 320 pages

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Audacity Jones to the Rescue

Kirby Larson · 216 pages

In 1910, Audacity Jones is an eleven-year-old orphan living a monotonous life at Miss Maisie's School for Wayward Girls, and wondering why nothing exciting ever happens--but when the mysterious Commodore Crutchfield whisks her away to Washington D.C., she finds herself involved in a sinister and dangerous plot against the president of the United States.

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Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Georgia Byng · 371 pages

Molly Moon es una niña huérfana, como todos los niños que viven en el horrible orfanato Hardwick House. Pero Molly es diferente: es fea y delgaducha, y sólo tiene un amigo, Rocky. El resto de los niños la odian y se meten con ella. Incluso la señorita Adderstone, la directora del orfanato, y la cocinera, Edna, siempre la están castigando. El único sitio donde Molly es mínimamente feliz es en la bi

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Mark of the Plague

Kevin Sands · 529 pages

As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.

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Demons and Druids

James Patterson, Adam Sadler · 243 pages

As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.

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Fever Crumb

Philip Reeve · 325 pages

A lone girl sets out on a mission to retrieve lost technology in a bleak and irrational London of the future.

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