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 [X], alchemy, adventure and adventurers, london (england) [X], great britain, adventure fiction, large type books, adventure stories [X]