Alex Rider #5 Scorpia
A graphic novelization of Anthony Horowitz's "Scorpia" in which fourteen-year-old Alex Rider goes to Italy after being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.
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copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: rider, alex, terrorism, orphans [X], italy, london (england) [X], england, spy comics, action and adventure comics, comics adaptations, graphic novels
Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
When her father dies leaving her penniless, Sara Crewe, a once privileged pupil at Miss Minchin's London boarding school, endures many hardships and cruel treatment until she is helped by a mysterious benefactor.
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year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans [X], boarding schools, schools, private schools, school stories, london (england) [X], adaptations, picture books
Wishes And Wellingtons
Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boarding schools, friendship, jinn, orphans [X], genies, schools, magic, school stories, london (england) [X], england
Oliver Twist
An illustrated retelling in which a young orphan boy in nineteenth-century England lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: twist, oliver, orphans [X], thieves, robbers and outlaws, coming of age, bildungsromans, london (england) [X], great britain, bildungsromans, adaptations
Twist
Eighteen-year-old Twist, one of the most daring street artists in London, does not have much, but when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: twist, oliver, orphans [X], teenage boys, graffiti artists, fugitives from justice, london (england) [X], thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction, adaptations
The Ice Monster
"When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious ice monster--a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole--she's determined to discover more.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
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Crime And Carpetbags
"Now that Maeve Merritt has surrendered Mermeros, the djinni she found in a sardine can, she expects her life in London will be dull as dirt.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: genies, boarding schools, schools, friendship, orphans [X], england, london (england) [X], jinn, school fiction
Burglars And Bluestockings
"Maeve Merritt knows all about magic. After all, she found Mermeros the djinni in a sardine can! But not even magic can give her the freedom to do the daring things she wants to do in her life---things not allowed for girls in 1897.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jinn, thieves, boarding schools, schools, friendship, orphans [X], genies, robbers and outlaws, private schools, school stories, london (england) [X], england, school fiction