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Girls survive graphic novelsSummary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICRubinate, Amy
Summary: In September 1666 Kate and her little sister Lizzie accompany their grandfather to London to sell their apple crop only to be caught up in the Great Fire of London--and when their grandfather is forced to be part of a fire brigade it is Kate who must keep her sister, their horse and cart safe from both thieves and flames.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUB (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Worth, Jennifer
Summary: When 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives; she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2014