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Great Expectations

author: Dickens, Charles, Jennings, Linda, Bledsoe, Thomas, Cuaro?n, Alfonso, Jennings, Linda M, Cuar?n, Alfonso
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230

Life

author: Peet, Mal
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

The King's Arrow

author: Cadnum, Michael
In 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon struggles to find himself a place in divided England, and when he is offered the chance to accompany the king on a royal hunt, Simon hopes the journey will unlock doors for an exciting future, but when the hunt takes a fatal turn, Simon is forced to flee for his life.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: tirel, walter, william, coming of age [X], middle ages, bildungsromans, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]

The Telling Pool

author: Clement-davies, David
Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks on a quest to remove an ancient curse from Great Britain during the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: arthur, king, magic, coming of age [X], adventure and adventurers, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]

Shelter Me

author: Mcaulay, Alex
Fifteen-year-old Maggie leaves London during the 1941 German blitz to stay in Wales at a secluded boarding school, but when it turns out not to be as safe as it was supposed to be, she and three other girls flee and begin a harrowing journey back to London.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: coming of age [X], bildungsromans, survival, world war, 1939-1945, historical fiction [X], great britain [X]

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