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Angleberger, Tom
Horton Halfpott or The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor or The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset
Horton, an upstanding kitchen boy in a castle in nineteenth-century England, becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding a series of thefts, which is also connected to the pursuit of a very eligible and wealthy young lady's affections.
206 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Avi
Crispin : the Cross of Lead
Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
262 p. 2002
Children's Fiction Book
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Baccalario, Pierdomenico
The Long-lost Map
Eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia, along with their friend Rick, find themselves in ancient Egypt in search of an important map after going through a magical door in their old English mansion.
261 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book BACCALA
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Barrow, Randi G.
Saving Zasha
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them
229 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
The Boy Who Dared
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
202 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book BARTOLE
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Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
The Lacemaker and the Princess
In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess Therese. Their relationship becomes complicated not only by their different social class but by the growing political unrest and resentment of the French people.
199 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book BRADLEY
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Burgis, Stephanie
Kat Incorrigible
In 1803 England, twelve-year-old Kat discovers she has magical powers, and tries to use them to rescue her sister from marrying a man she does not love, and find true loves for both of her sisters.
295 p. 2011
Children's Fiction Book
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Calkhoven, Laurie
Michael at the Invasion of France 1943
Michael, a thirteen-year-old French-American, watches in fear as the Nazis invade Paris, and is spurred to become part of the French Resistance movement, defying Hitler, helping American aviators to safe zones, and delivering secret documents at great risk to his own safety.
231 p. : map 2012
Children's Fiction Book
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Casanova, Mary
The Klipfish Code
Ten-year-old Merit is sent with her younger brother to Gody Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after the Germans bomb Norway in 1940. She longs to join her parents in the Resistance and resents grandfather's refusal to oppose the Nazis' presence.
227 p. 2007
Children's Fiction Book CASANOV
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Coerr, Eleanor
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
80 p. 1977
Children's Fiction Book COERR
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Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Crossing to Paradise
When fifteen-year-old Gatty is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.
339 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book CROSSLE
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Deedy, Carmen Agra
The Cheshire Cheese Cat : a Dickens of a Tale
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.
228 p. 2011
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Fern, Tracey E.
Pippo the Fool
In fifteenth-century Florence, Italy, a contest is held to design a magnificent dome for the town's cathedral, but when Pippo the Fool claims he will win the contest, everyone laughs at him. Based on a true story.
unpaged 2009
Children's Fiction Book FERN
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Fleischman, Sid
The White Elephant
In old Siam, young elephant trainer Run-Run and his old charge, Walking Mountain, must deal with the curse of a sacred white elephant.
95 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book FLEISCH
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
Maggie's Door
In the mid-1800s, Nory Ryan and her neighbor and friend, Sean Red Mallon, set out separately on a dangerous journey and sea voyage from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
158 p. 2003
Children's Fiction Book GIFF
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Hartnett, Sonya
The Silver Donkey
In France during World War I, four French children learn about honesty, loyalty, and courage from an English army deserter who tells them a series of stories related to his small, silver donkey charm.
266 p. 2006
Children's Fiction Book HARTNET
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Ibbotson, Eva
The Dragonfly Pool
At first Tally doesn't want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and self expression are valued. Tally organizes a ragtag dance troupe so the school can participate in an international folk dancing festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939. There she befriends Karil, the crown prince, who would love nothing more than to have ordinary friends and attend a school like Delderton. When Karil's father is assassinated, it is up to Tally and her friends to help Karil escape the Nazis and the bleak future he has inherited.
377 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book IBBOTSO
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Keaney, Brian
The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe
It's seven o'clock on a cold London evening in 1862, and in a grubby theater down by the docks, Nathaniel Wolfe watches his father—the greatest medium in London—take to the stage. Which of the dead will speak through him tonight? What Nathaniel doesn't know is that his father is meddling with things he cannot control, and before the night is over Nathaniel will find himself in the middle of a chilling mystery, one that can only be solved from beyond the grave.
232 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
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Knight, Joan
Charlotte in London
In 1895 a young American girl, keeps a journal as her family leaves the artist colony of Giverny, France and travels to London, England, where they meet famous writers and artists and learn of the city's history.
unpaged 2008
Children's Fiction Book KNIGHT
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La Fevers, R. L.
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts.
387 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book LA FEVE
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