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Oliver Twist

author: Dauvillier, Lo?c
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel about the harsh life of an orphan in Victorian England.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

Velvet

author: Hooper, Mary
In Victorian London, orphaned Velvet leaves her backbreaking job in a steam laundry for the mysterious and exciting world of famed spiritualist Madame Savoya, who harbors dangerous secrets.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1000

Clockwork Princess

author: Clare, Cassandra
When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840

Spring-heeled Jack

author: Pullman, Philip
Three children make their escape from a London orphanage and after a series of misadventures are reunited with their father through the efforts of the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: orphans [X], adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, london (england) [X]

A Little Princess

author: Zamorsky, Tania
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: orphans [X], boarding schools, schools, private schools, london (england) [X]

Sara Crewe

author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
When she is orphaned, the star pupil of Miss Minchin's boarding school in London becomes a penniless, friendless ward of the cruel Miss Minchin.
FIC
year: 1981
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boarding schools, schools, orphans [X], london (england) [X]

Ballet Shoes

author: Streatfeild, Noel
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: acting, ballet dancing, orphans [X], sisters, london (england) [X], ballet

Oliver Twist

author: Olmstead, Kathleen
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

A Little Princess

author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: schools, school stories, orphans [X], london (england) [X]

Oliver Twist

author: Martin, Les
A simplified retelling of the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 320
subjects: robbers and outlaws, orphans [X], thieves, london (england) [X], great britain

A Little Princess

author: Colln, Louise
An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel in which Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: boarding schools, orphans [X], schools, london (england) [X], great britain

A Spy In The House

author: Lee, Y. S
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.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: orphans [X], spies, historical fiction, london (england) [X], great britain

Folly

author: Jocelyn, Marthe
In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850

A Little Princess

author: Dubowski, Cathy East
Sara Crewe, a wealthy girl attending a boarding school in London, is banished to the attic and made the servant of the cruel headmistress after her father dies penniless, but with help from a secret friend, her life changes in wonderful ways.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 250

The Christmas Doll

author: Woodruff, Elvira
As Christmas approaches, Lucy, a ten-year-old orphan living on the streets of London, is overjoyed to be given the job of sewing hearts for the dolls in ThimbleBee's Doll Shop.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: dolls, orphans [X], christmas, london (england) [X]

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