Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Saturday, May 19, 2012

A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson

A Boy Called Dickens
Deborah Hopkinson, ill by John Hendrix
Schwartz and Wade
Unpaged


Narrates the tale of twelve-year-old Charles Dickens who, despite poverty and long hours of factory work, still has time to discover and share the stories of other residents of 1824 London. Includes author's note about Dickens' life and some of the books he wrote.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan

Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
2011
217p.

 In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood

hiddengalleryHidden Gallery (Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, 2) by Maryrose Wood

Balzer + Bray

2011

313p.

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.