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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
3) My bonny light horseman: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, in love and war
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Jacky Faber, forced to go behind enemy lines in Paris as an American dancer, seduces a French general to obtain military secrets and save her friends, then dresses in male clothing and penetrates the French army to fight with Napoleon.
Author
Series
Orphan trains trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Mary, Johnny, and Lizzie Marston, and other children traveling on the Orphan Train from New York City, share hopes for their futures in good, loving homes in the American West.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
7) Rodzina
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
Orphan Catherine "Cat" Royal, living at the Drury Lane Theater in 1790s London, tries to find the "diamond" supposedly hidden in the theater, which unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist, and involves her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world of nobility.
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