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Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
4) Vanity Fair
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 66
Formats
Description
Thackeray's best-loved work, "Vanity Fair, is a satire of epic proportions, and proves that deep-seated cynicism and heartfelt morality don't have to get in the way of a good story. Filled with exceptionally drawn characters, biting social humor, and Thackeray's own illustrations, "Vanity Fair is not only one of the great English novels of the nineteenth century, its title has become synonymous with the follies of high society. Nicholas Dames is Assistant...
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When a dinosaur fossil hunter is blackmailed by kidnappers who need her to fake a validation in return of her beloved pooch, Ada and Mary are given three days to find the offenders and save the scientist's reputation.
Author
Series
Lady Helen novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In 1812, Lady Helen, taking refuge for the summer in Brighton, learns the Dark Days Club has a secret mission for her"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
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...
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Ada and Mary take on the case of young Princess Alexandrina Victoria's missing diary.