Buckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: While visiting an old castle in England, Samantha and Nellie solve mysteries involving a ghost and some missing rare books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCMurdock, Catherine Gilbert.
Summary: Princess Wisdom, who yearns for a life of adventure beyond the kingdom of Montagne, Tips, a soldier keeping his true life secret from his family, Fortitude, an orphaned maid who longs for Tips, and Magic the cat form an uneasy alliance as they try to save the kingdom from certain destruction. Told through diaries, memoirs, encyclopedia entries, letters, biographies, and a stage play.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MURLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: "1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEMueller, Jenna
Summary: Cinderella is too busy cleaning and fixing things around the house that she runs out of time to get ready for the ball with her stepsisters, but then her Fairy Godmother shows up to help the aspiring interior designer and Clementine go to the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUEGilbert, Julie
Summary: In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILMafi, Tahereh
Summary: "To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFKimmel, Eric A.
Summary: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMWalters, Eric
Summary: After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed by fire, Betty, an innocent and trusting teen, takes a job as a maid in Kingston, Ontario. Welcomed into the household of the wealthy Remington clan, Betty makes friends with the staff at the house and soon discovers that her mother had also been a maid there and that her father is in a nearby jail, convicted of murdering her mother. When she meets...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC WALMilord, Susan.
Summary: In rural Quebec in the 1830s, Jenny is hired to help a family by cooking and cleaning after her predecessor, the beloved Emily, has died, but Jenny is mysteriously prevented from completing one of her chores.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vermont Folklife Center 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MILGoka, Ruby Yayra
Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKParish, Herman.
Summary: Amelia Bedelia misunderstands what her employer wants her to do, and ends up campaigning for the office of mayor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: A child in Ecuador is sent to be the servant of a rich mestizo family where she is mistreated. She teaches herself to read and write and escapes, but she is lost between two cultures. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RESParish, Herman
Summary: When she is asked to be a flower girl in Aunt Mary's beach wedding, Amelia Bedelia helps plan and prepare before the big day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PARParish, Peggy.
Summary: A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFestival 1999
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Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013