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-- Nineteen fifties.2015., Juvenile, Franklin Watts Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This series offers a look at decades in recent history through the memories of members of a selection of families. Employing running text, featured quotations and colour and black and white photographs, each book provides an in-depth look at the contrasts in life between 'then' and 'now'.
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c2011., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FANTASY F MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
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2011., G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
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c2011., Pre-adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
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c2011., Juvenile, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: FIC MELOY Genre: Adventure fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Apothecary series Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: Follows an American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
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2010., Juvenile, Disney Hyperion Books Call No: FIC HIGSON Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.
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-- Curtsies and conspiracies2013., LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: FANTASY F CAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Finishing school Volume: 2Summary Note: Sophronia is excelling at her second year at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Training in espionage, she uses her newly acquired skills to learn the true reason behind the school trip to London, one that includes boys. What she uncovers is a whirl-wind London season, full dance cards, and conspiracy involving a technology that will affect vampires, werewolves, and humans alike.
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-- Etiquette and espionage2013., Little, Brown and Co Call No: FANTASY F CAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Finishing school Volume: 1Summary Note: In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
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2015., Adolescent, Quirk Books Call No: FIC RIGGS Edition: First paperback edi Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Series Title: Miss Peregrine's peculiar children, #2Summary Note: "Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends, who possess supernatural abilities, must journey to London (circa 1940), the 'peculiar' capital of the world. There they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner"--
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[2016], Adolescent, Yen Press Call No: GN RIG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jacob and friends are lost at sea after fleeing an army of monsters and the only person who might be able to save them is their headmistress, Miss Peregrine. The only problem? Miss Peregrine has turned into a bird! Can the peculiar friends figure out how to get Miss Peregrine back to normal and get ashore safely?
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By Peet, Mal2011., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
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By Peet, MalÃ2011., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Historical Fiction FIC PEE Edition: 1st U.S. pbk. ed. in this format 2018. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
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2012, c2011., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: HORROR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
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2012, c2011., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Horror Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Cover image Summary Note: When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
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2012., Candlewick Press Call No: SUPERNATURAL F BAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
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Ã2012., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: Horror FIC Barraclough Edition: First U.S. paperback edition. Genre: Horror Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
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2010., Adolescent, Henry Holt Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist.".
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By Albus, Kate[2021]., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: HISTORICAL F ALB Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
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By Albus, Kate2022., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: [Fic] Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently.
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1985., Bookwright Press Call No: 92 Edition: Library ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great livesSummary Note: Traces the life of the British monarch from birth through her coronation in 1953 and looks at her royal duties and private life.