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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Baronet
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
Large print ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old orphaned Oliver Twist escapes a workhouse and travels to London to seek a better life.
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
5) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A precocious orphan evacuee and a debt-ridden widow con artist forge an unlikely alliance and take advantage ofunscrupulous money-making opportunities in the bombed suburbs of World War II England.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse-- and falls deeply in love with her...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389, 31 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Soon after taking a job at a home for orphaned flower girls, Tilly Harper finds a notebook that tells the tale of two flower girl sisters, Flora and Rosie, who were heartbreakingly separated forty years before.
12) A man of honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There,...
13) Jane Eyre
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xlii, 578 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
313 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
16) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaption of Dickens' story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
17) Scorpia rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
18) Bleak house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but...
19) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
20) Scorpia /Book 5
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.