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Series
Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Young Sherlock Holmes, committed to solving crimes after his mother's death, is visiting his father at work when an aerialist, practicing a high-trapeze performance at the legendary Crystal Palace, falls to the ground, landing at Holmes' feet, and uttering two cryptic last words that send the boy on a dangerous search for answers.
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Series
Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In the basement of his grandmother's home in London where his mother is recuperating from cancer, twelve-year-old Tom discovers a path to the past where, in the year 1717, a "fairy child" and her friends desperately need his help.
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Series
S.T.O.R.M volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In London, the teen aged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, uncover plans for a deadly weapon and race to find and dismantle it, then confront the corrupt scientist behind the scheme.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Warren takes you on a journey into the workhouses, slums, factories, and schools of Victorian England, and into the world of Dickens. She shows now he used his pen to do battle on behalf of the poor, becoming one of the great reformers of his or any age.
10) Oliver Twist
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Series
Wishbone classics volume 5
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An abridged version of the classic "Oliver Twist," the tale of a poor London orphan hoping for a better life, narrated by Wishbone the television dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of characters.
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Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
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Series
Diamond brothers mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When thirteen-year-old Nick is framed for a jewel robbery, he and his brother, the bumbling detective Tim Diamond, attempt to clear his name by capturing the master criminal known as the Fence.
15) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An illustrated adaptation of the Dickens story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
16) The black canary
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old James has no interest in music in spite of the fact that both his parents are musicians, but when he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, he finds that his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
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