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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
They are the same age and they look alike. Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference is becomes all too clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and roles.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling...
3) Blacklands
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb writes to a convicted killer to try to determine the fate of his uncle, who has been missing for twenty years, a letter that triggers a psychologically charged cat-and-mouse correspondence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
5) About a boy
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
A comedy on a bachelor in London who specializes in affairs with single mothers. To improve his chances, he joins a single parents' association and gets a boy to pretend he is his son
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his father dies, Peter moves suddenly and somewhat mysteriously with his mother to the country from the city, where he befriends two outcasts at school and begins to wonder what secrets his mother is hiding in a locked attic room.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing Up! Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child, abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. In Charles Dickens' brilliant novel, we learn of David's early harsh years... his adoption by his eccentric aunt... his betrayal by a childhood friend... the pressures of starting a career... immature, young love... and finally career success and personal happiness. Charles Dickens' sensitive portrayal of David's early...