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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Hazel becomes the personal physician to Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III, she is dragged into the glamor and romance of the British court, but she soon realizes malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and she may be the only one capable of setting things right.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
Author
Series
Poison diaries trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In late eighteenth-century Northumberland, England, sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton and the mysterious Weed uncover the horrible secrets of poisons growing in Thomas Luxton's apothecary garden.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol is the unwitting servant of notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. One dark night, Kit finds his master bleeding from a mortal wound, dons the man's riding cloak to seek help, and changes the course of his life forever. Mistaken for Whistling Jack and on the run from redcoats, Kit is catapulted into a world of magic and wonders he thought the stuff of fairy tales. Bound by magical law, Kit...
Author
Series
Gideon trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While sinister Lord Luxon makes himself at home in twenty-first century Manhattan, Peter and Kate, aided by Gideon, pursue The Tar Man through the streets of eighteenth-century London, when history is at its tipping point.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After the Newington Emerald is stolen at the height of a conjured storm, eighteen-year-old Lady Truthful Newington goes to London, disguised as a man, to search for the magical heirloom of her house, and is soon caught up in a dangerous adventure where she must risk her life, her reputation, and her heart.
Author
Series
Pimpernelles volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1793, Eug©♭nie de Boncoeur arrives at the home of her English uncle and cousin, but the French Revolution has pursued her in the form of Guy Deschamps, who is determined to bring her back to Paris to marry the Pale Assassin.
13) Vanity Fair
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 66
Description
Thackeray's best-loved work, "Vanity Fair, is a satire of epic proportions, and proves that deep-seated cynicism and heartfelt morality don't have to get in the way of a good story. Filled with exceptionally drawn characters, biting social humor, and Thackeray's own illustrations, "Vanity Fair is not only one of the great English novels of the nineteenth century, its title has become synonymous with the follies of high society. Nicholas Dames is Assistant...
Author
Series
Adventures of Kit Bristol volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III.