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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
"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 awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother’s strange disappearance....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Groomed to be the perfect highborn Victorian young lady, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has a different plan in mind. After the devastating loss of her mother, she is determined to understand the nature of death itself. She begins secretly apprenticing in forensics and soon gets drawn into the disturbing investigation of serial killer Jack the Ripper. But to her horror, the search for clues brings her far closer to her sheltered world than she ever thought...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While on the run from her brother Sherlock, the world's most famous detective, Enola Holmes has been hiding in plain sight, lodging with Mrs Tupper. Mrs Tupper may be half-deaf and a terrible cook, but she is the closest thing Enola has to a family. So when she discovers that her dear land lady has been abducted, Enola is shocked but determined to find out why. Especially when she finds cryptic codes within a crinoline underskirt in Mrs Tupper's upturned...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.
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Blackthorn key volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
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Series
Code name Verity volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in a hospital not knowing how she was injured, and soon befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveller boy who found her, and later, when a body is discovered, she experiences the prejudices his family has endured and tries to keep them from being framed for the crime.
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Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's younger sister and self-declared finder of lost persons and things, is determined to find her friend, Lacy Cecily, a confused young Baronet's daughter on the run from her father's devious schemes.
10) The diviners
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Series
Diviners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
11) Out of the Easy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Enola Holmes mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Enola Holmes, now independent and pursuing her profession as a scientific perditorian, joins forces with her brother Sherlock to solve the mysterious disappearance of Wolcott Balestier, a friend of Rudyard Kipling, as they uncover the ruthless world of book publishing and seek to bring him back safely.
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Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1889 London young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker, relative of Bram, and Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, are summoned to investigate the clue of the not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs--but where does a time traveler fit in?
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Series
The Agency volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
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Series
Secrets of the Eternal Rose volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Venice, orphaned Cassandra Caravello is one of the elite but feels trapped in the city of water until she stumbles upon a murdered woman and is drawn into a dangerous world of courtesans, grave robbers, and secret societies, guided by Falco, a mysterious and alluring artist.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Iris Anderson is only 15, but she's quickly mastering the art of deception in this YA novel for fans of Veronica Mars. It's the fall of 1942 and Iris's world is rapidly changing. Her Pop is back from the war with a missing leg, limiting his ability to do the physically grueling part of his detective work. Iris is dying to help, especially when she discovers that one of Pop's cases involves a boy at her school. Now, instead of sitting...
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Series
Enola Holmes mystery volume 6
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
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Series
Steampunk chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
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"Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell have landed in America, a bold, brash land unlike the genteel streets of London. But like London, the city of Chicago hides its dark secrets well. When the two attend the spectacular World's Fair, they find the once-in-a-lifetime event tainted with reports of missing people and unsolved murders. Determined to help, Audrey Rose and Thomas begin their investigations, only to find themselves facing a serial...