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The wreckers
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Iain Lawrence |
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded. |
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The Eagle of the Ninth. 1400 Grundwörter.
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Rosemary Sutcliff,C. Walter Hodges |
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command. |
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The curse of the night wolf
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Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell |
BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and "highstacking" around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked… |
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The ghost of Crutchfield Hall
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Mary Downing Hahn |
In the nineteenth century, ten-year-old Florence Crutchfield leaves a London orphanage to live with her great-uncle, great-aunt, and sickly cousin James, but she soon realizes the home has another re… |
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A ghost tale for Christmas time
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Mary Pope Osborne,Sal Murdocca,BookSource Staff |
Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol." |
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Black Beauty
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Anna Sewell |
One of the most beloved animal characters of all time comes to life in Black Beauty. Although originally dismissed as a trite children’s novel because it is written in the voice of a horse, the novel… |
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Just Henry
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Michelle Magorian |
When Henry develops an old camera film he uncovers a mystery and events spiral until his life resembles the drama of the big screen. |
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The body at the tower
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Ying S. Lee |
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister u… |
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Twin's daughter
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted |
In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their doo… |
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Beswitched
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Kate Saunders,Paola Escobar |
On her way, reluctantly, to a boarding school in present-day England, Flora suddenly finds herself in 1935, the new girl at St. Winifred's, having been summoned via a magic spell by her new dormitory… |
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The FitzOsbornes in exile
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Michelle Cooper,Michelle Cooper |
In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social… |
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The wild man
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Mark Barratt |
In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks dow… |
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Freaks
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Kieran Larwood |
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing o… |
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Black ice
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Andrew Lane |
In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiousities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder. |
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All my noble dreams and then what happens
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Gloria Whelan |
As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and sh… |
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Palace of Spies
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Sarah Zettel |
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 handso… |
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Treason
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Berlie Doherty |
"Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favorite, Will gains many enemies in Court. When his enemies convince the King that Will's father has committed tr… |
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Delusion
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Laura L. Sullivan |
"Two beautiful teenage sisters, Phil and Fee Albion, descendents of a long line of stage illusionists, are sent from London to the countryside during World War II, only to discover a hidden college o… |
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Flambards in Summer
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K. M. Peyton |
Christina returns to Flambards in 1916, only to find the estate overgrown, deserted, and desolate. With the First World War still raging and most of the men she knows absent, Christina decides to use… |
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Long Lankin
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Lindsey Barraclough |
A compelling, atmospheric story inspired by a haunting folk song about murder, witchcraft and revenge. |
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