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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)	Nancy Springer	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 awa…	OL108823W
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
Phantom of Blood Alley	Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell	Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horro…	OL15192096W
Clockwork Angel	Cassandra Clare	When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark sisters, who are members of…	OL15370343W
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
Clockwork prince	Cassandra Clare	This book is about a boy called will and hes damsel in distress. he has a crush on this girl called theresa but she like his best friend bobby.	OL16002093W
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
The Apothecary (The Apothecary #1)	Maile Meloy	It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows—a fascinating boy who’s not afraid …	OL16318170W
The wild man	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…	OL16484302W
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
Kaspar the Titanic cat	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman	Fourteen-year-old Johnny Trott, a bell-boy at London's Savoy Hotel in 1912, becomes caregiver to Kaspar Kandinsky, the Prince of Cats, and soon the two are stowing away on the Titanic, where they are…	OL16596995W
Kaspar prince of cats	Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman	Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's th…	OL16798841W
The Spiritglass Charade (Stoker & Holmes #2)	Colleen Gleason	In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend, Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned--but the reappearance of …	OL17081841W
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