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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Rise of the Darklings	Paul Crilley	After saving a piskie's life, twelve-year-old Emily Snow finds herself in the middle of a centuries-old war between rival fairy factions and a secret society named The Invisible Order.	OL13844238W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Patricia Krapesh	Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.	OL14869595W
A Tale of Two Cities [adaptation]	Charles Dickens	Grade 3 Vocabulary restricted to 3,100 headwords Illustrated in colour Lucie thinks that her father, Dr. Manette, is dead. Then one day a stranger tells her that Dr. Manette is alive - he has be…	OL14869647W
The Battle of the Sun	Jeanette Winterson	An evil Magus is intent on turning London into gold. Only a boy and his quick wits stand between the Magus and his goal Jeanette Winterson at her most inventive, lyrical, imaginative and brilliant Ja…	OL14987862W
Rubinrot	Nelly Lemaire,Luis Miralles de Imperial,Kerstin Gier,Anthea Bell	Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden s…	OL15720268W
Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray	Dotti Enderle	An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corru…	OL15932990W
The Mark of the Golden Dragon (Bloody Jack #9)	Louis A. Meyer	Jacky Faber, soldier, sailor, spy, and sometime pirate, condemned for life to the English prison colony in Australia for high crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of Bri…	OL15941403W
Prisoners in the palace	Michaela MacColl	Recently orphaned and destitute, seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings earns a position as a lady's maid to sixteen-year-old Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace in 1836, the year before Victoria become…	OL16260931W
Legacy of the Clockwork Key	Kristin Bailey	A orphaned sixteen-year-old servant in Victorian England finds love while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.	OL16506044W
Freaks	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…	OL16546987W
The Marvels	Brian Selznick	Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text. In 1766, a boy, Billy Marvel, is shipwrecked, rescued, and goes on to found a brilliant fam…	OL17206344W
The case of the Stolen Sixpence	Holly Webb,Anna Bentinck,Marion Lindsay	Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, uncovers an intriguing plot involving stolen sausages, pilfered halfpennies, and a fast-paced bicycle…	OL17316871W
The Case Of The Feathered Mask	Holly Webb,Marion Lindsay	Junior sleuth Maisie Hitchins, who lives in her grandmother's boarding house in Victorian London, investigates the theft of a rare and valuable tribal mask from the Amazonian rainforest.	OL17395391W
In love	Cora Harrison	It's 1924. Leaving their beloved Beech Grove Manor to go to London for the season, Poppy and Daisy Derrington know that they must shine as debutantes. Since a girl cannot inherit her father's estate,…	OL17878305W
The Black Crow conspiracy	Christopher Edge	"In 1902, fifteen-year-old Penelope Tredwell, magazine publisher and writer of macabre tales, must uncover a mystery surrounding the theft of the Crown Jewels and a thief that can walk through walls …	OL17882833W
Dangerous deceptions	Sarah Zettel	An unwelcome engagement, a mysterious plot that hints at treason, and a possible murder add even more excitement to sixteen-year-old Peggy Fitzroy's life as she continues to serve as both a lady-in-w…	OL17882968W
Constable & Toop	Gareth P. Jones	In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty hous…	OL19969891W
Bombs over London	Marissa Moss	Instructed by her time-traveling mother to travel to World War I London and steal a German spy's briefcase, thirteen-year-old Mira enjoys meeting famous suffragists and such writers as Arthur Conan D…	OL19987755W
Stalking Jack the Ripper	Kerri Maniscalco	A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.	OL20039486W
Clockwork Angel	Cassandra Clare	First in Cassandra Clare’s internationally bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy about the Shadowhunters. Love is the most dangerous magic of all... First in the bestselling prequel series to The M…	OL20457659W