The Ruby In The Smoke
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: mystery and detective stories, orphans, mystery fiction, london (england) [X], readers rule, criminals [X], historical fiction, great britain, london
Goldstrike
After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: computer hackers, supercomputers, assassins, london (england) [X], england, fugitives from justice, criminals [X]
Oliver Twist, Or, The Parish Boy's Progress
Presents the text to the Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist" about an orphan who is raised in a workhouse and who eventually runs away to London.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: boys, orphans, criminals [X], london (england) [X], kidnapping victims, bildungsromans, electronic books
Moll Flanders
Having been abandoned at birth in London's Newgate prison, Moll Flanders uses her disreputable skills in order to survive in the corrupt society of eighteenth-century England.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1390
subjects: children of prisoners, british, women, prostitutes, repentance, london (england) [X], virginia, criminals [X], prostitution, england, exile (punishment), picaresque literature, adventure fiction, picaresque literature, adventure stories
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
Follows the adventures of Moll Flanders from her birth in Newgate Prison to her position of wealth and stature in seventeenth century England and move to the American colonies.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1320
subjects: children of prisoners, british, exile (punishment), prostitutes, repentance, london (england) [X], virginia, women, criminals [X], england, picaresque literature, women
Oliver Twist
After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 71
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 990
subjects: orphans, criminals [X], london (england) [X], bildungsromans, england fiction, dickens, charles, cartoons and comics, comic books, strips, etc, poor children, kidnapping victims, delitos, hu?rfanos, spanish language materials, londres (inglaterra), readers, english language, england, great britain, robbers and outlaws, identity (psychology), boys, old english novel, robbers and outlaws-fiction, orphans-fiction, england-fiction, cartoons and caricatures, thieves, social conditions, london, england, poverty, detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, london
Oliver Twist
An adaptation of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Montmorency's Revenge
As Queen Victoria lies dying and with her family in danger, a group of friends races to track down the anarchists responsible for George's death, even as Montmorency seeks to teach a new generation to forgive.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: revolutionaries, criminals [X], identity (psychology), robbers and outlaws, london (england) [X], identity, historical fiction, individuality, identity (philosophical concept)
Ivy
In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and muse.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: assertiveness (psychology), artists, pre-raphaelites, drug abuse, criminals [X], london (england) [X], great britain
The Great Train Robbery
A master criminal plots and carries out the robbery of gold bullion being sent by train from London to Paris in supposedly invulnerable safes.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1060
subjects: train robberies, railroads, theft, historical fiction, london (england) [X], great britain, crime, criminals [X], mystery fiction, historical fiction, england
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 [X], mystery fiction, adventure stories, london (england) [X], great britain
Oliver Twist
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
The Girl In The Steel Corset
Sixteen-year-old Finley, a lady's maid in 1897 England, is forced to leave yet another job when the dark "thing" inside her knocks out the brutal son of her employer, and she is taken in by Griffin King, the orphaned Duke of Greythorne, who sees the magical darkness inside Finley and enlists her to join his little group of misfits in a quest to bring down the mastermind behind a rash of crimes committed by automatons.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: girls, teenagers, supernatural, robots, fantasy fiction, london (england) [X], young women, nobility, criminals [X], automata, mystery fiction
The Girl With The Iron Touch
"London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: eighteen nineties, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, automata, mystery and detective stories, london (england) [X], robots, kidnapping, criminals [X], nobility
Ivy
In mid-nineteenth-century London, young, mistreated, and destitute Ivy, whose main asset is her beautiful red hair, comes to the attention of an aspiring painter of the pre-Raphaelite school of artists who, with the connivance of Ivy's unsavory family, is determined to make her his model and muse.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: thieves, artists' models, criminals [X], drug abuse, pre-raphaelites, artists, assertiveness (psychology), great britain, london (england) [X]