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Characters in literature Fiction Children's stories Detective and mystery stories England London Friendship Fiction Great Britain Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Fiction Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Juvenile fiction London (England) History 19th century Fiction London (England) History 19th century Juvenile fictionSelznick, Brian
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELFunaro, Gregory.
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FUNClare, Cassandra
Summary: Engaged to marry James Herondale, Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. But James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia's reputation. James is in love with Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. The sword Cortana burns Cordelia's hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLASpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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Summary: Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANAdler, Irene
Summary: Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADLAdler, Irene
Summary: In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ADLHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD HOPWalliams, David
Summary: This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth. When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she's determined to discover more. A chance encounter brings Elsie face to face with the creature, and sparks the adventure of a lifetime-- from London to the heart of the Arctic!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALGeras, Adèle
Summary: "1895 -- Cecily is enchanted when she meets Rosalind, a photographer. But Cecily's father refuses to let her help Rosalind; can Cecily follow her dreams?"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GERBunzl, Peter
Summary: When her father goes missing, thirteen-year-old Lily Hartman must team up with a clockmaker's son, Robert, and her mechanimal fox, Malkin, to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance and his world-changing invention, a perpetual motion machine called the Cogheart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016