The Prince And The Pauper
Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1160
subjects: edward, impostors and imposture, social classes, poor children, princes, boys, london (england) [X], princes and princesses, poor, adventure fiction, great britain, adventure and adventurers, england, biographical fiction [X], edward vi, imposters and imposture, kings, queens, rulers, etc, kings and rulers, impersonation, historical fiction
Drood
Fifty-three-year-old Charles Dickens, having escaped death during a train accident, momentarily meets a ghoulish figure named Drood and sets out with his friend Wilkie Collins into the nightmarish world of the slums and catacombs of London to uncover the mystery surrounding the figure.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dickens, charles, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction, london (england) [X]
Jemmy Button
Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: button, jemmy, yahgan indians, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X], tierra del fuego (argentina and chile), london (england) [X]
The Case Of The Missing Moonstone
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: shelley, mary wollstonecraft, lovelace, ada king, mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X], challenges, london (england) [X], great britain, detective and mystery stories, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction