Jimmy Coates: Assassin?
While escaping from the strange men that are after him in London, Jimmy discovers he possesses many unusual talents for an eleven-year-old boy.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: robots, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, london (england) [X], england, adventure stories [X]
Tunnels
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 84
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: adventure and adventurers, underground areas, archaeology, london (england) [X], england, tunnels, tunneling, archeology, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X]
The Prince And The Pauper
Young Tom is a pauper, doomed to wander the streets begging for crusts.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: edward, princes, poor, lookalikes, adventure and adventurers fiction, england fiction, false personation, england, impostors and imposture, boys, london (england) [X], fiction, mistaken identity, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, adapted, princes and princesses, great britain, historical fiction, edward vi, king of england, twain, mark, 1835-1910, poor children, adventure stories [X], edward vi, king of england, social classes, kings, queens, rulers, etc, historical fiction
Theodosia And The Eyes Of Horus
Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: museums, magic, blessing and cursing, families, london (england) [X], great britain, adventure stories [X]
The Apothecary
Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: cold war, alchemy, adventure and adventurers, london (england) [X], great britain, adventure fiction, large type books, adventure stories [X]
Dodger
In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a street urchin, rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeney Todd.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1210
subjects: dickens, charles, conduct of life, todd, sweeney (legendary character), love, london (england) [X], great britain, adventure stories [X], humorous stories, love stories
The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop
Eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily are recruited by a talking cat to assist her and MI6 in foiling the dastardly plans of their great-great-uncle, a chocolatier who used magic to make a candy that bestows immortality.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: magic, immortality, cats, brothers and sisters, twins, london (england) [X], england, siblings, adventure stories [X], adventure fiction, adventure fiction, action and adventure fiction
The Friday Society
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: adventure fiction, criminals, mystery fiction, adventure stories [X], london (england) [X], great britain
The Tin Princess
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: adventure and adventurers, historical fiction, adventure fiction, london (england) [X], adventure stories [X], adventure fiction
Footsteps
Unsettling words from his father before he dies set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.
FIC
year: 1980
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Fool's Girl
Violetta travels to London with her comic companion, Feste, to recover the holy relic that was stolen from their kingdom by evil Malvolio only to encounter the playwright, William Shakespeare.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: shakespeare, william, adventure stories [X], historical fiction, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, london (england) [X], great britain
Freefall
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: underground areas, archaeology, archeology, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], london (england) [X], england
The Sixth Lamentation
Terminally ill Agnes decides it's time to tell her granddaughter Lucy the secrets she has been carrying for 50 years.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, adventure fiction, adventure stories [X], france, london (england) [X], paris (france)
Amulet Keepers
Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: death, magic, adventure stories [X], london (england) [X], fantasy, adventure and adventurers, good and evil, mythology, egyptian, england
Everland
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden underground.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: adventure stories [X], hiding places, immunity, virus diseases, dystopias, london (england) [X], england, orphans, survival, characters in literature, adventure and adventurers