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Author
Series
Grim lovelies volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When their mistress is murdered, Anouk and her fellow beasties have only three days until their enchantment ends and they are transformed back into animals, but in seeking to remain human, they threaten the hierarchy imposed by the society of magic handlers in Paris called the Haute.
3) The gallery
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race...
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"When Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends, she knows 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 employer. Torn between keeping quiet to keep her job and speaking up for herself...
11) The servant
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Faten, a young servant girl, has her life changed when she meets Marwen, a young wealthy man, who drives her to challenge Lebanese societal standards.
Author
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's Christmas time in Calabria and with Strega Nona's annual feast around the corner, she has no time for her usual magical tasks. Christmas has a magic of its own, and no one knows magic like Strega Nona does, especially Big Anthony. But with the clock ticking on her preparations, will Big Anthony finally be able to prove that he can be counted on with some magic of his own?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Queen Victoria has a problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency assigns quick-witted Mary Quinn to the case. Posing as a domestic in the royal household and fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales are challenge enough, but when the prince witnesses a murder in an opium den -- and scandal threatens the royal family -- Mary learns that the accused killer may be someone very close...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Mary Quinn has a lot on her mind. James Easton, her longtime love interest, wants to marry her; but despite her feelings, independent-minded Mary hesitates. Meanwhile, the Agency has asked Mary to take on a dangerous case: convicted fraudster Henry Thorold is dying in prison, and Mary must watch for the return of his estranged wife, an accomplished criminal herself who has a potentially deadly grudge against James. Finally, a Chinese prizefighter...
Author
Series
The Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look for orange spine label.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). On this day 24th June 1920 I turned fourteen. I plan to have a very exciting future now that I have thrown off the SHACKLES of SCHOOL! A detective is what I would most like to be. I cannot think of any reason why I could not be one. Except perhaps I am too young. And I don't like blood. Nancy Parker has recently been engaged in her first position - as a housemaid for the very modern Mrs Bryce. It's not...