Theme: London

The Girl Who Saw Lions (Neal Porter Books)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

“BE STRONG MY ABELA.”  Orphaned by AIDS in Africa, Abela has a long journey ahead.When Abela’s mother dies of Aids in their African village, she is left to face the lions of the world. Lions like her Uncle Thomas who has plans to sell her in Europe. Lions like his bitter white wife, whom he [...]

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The Time Thief

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

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The Mystery of the Cupboard

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Omri puts away the cupboard in The Secret of the Indian, he vows that it will be forever. Little Bear, Boone, and the other miniature figures he had brought to life will remain plastic. But then Omri and his family move to an old country farmhouse that they inherited from a distant relative, and [...]

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Death In The Air: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Second Case (The Boy Sherlock Holmes)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

After the harrowing experience of losing his mother while solving a brutal murder in London’s East End, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime … and is soon involved in another case. While visiting his father at the magnificent Crystal Palace, Sherlock stops to watch a remarkable and dangerous trapeze performance high above, framed [...]

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Plots and Players

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Robin, Philip, and Frances, exiled Portuguese Jews secretly practicing their faith in intolerant sixteenth-century London, fight against the poison of prejudice in trying to save the life of Queen Elizabeth’s Jewish doctor.

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The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse Of Salamander Street

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Sequel to Shadowmancer. Kate and Thomas have barely escaped the evil sorcerer Demurral, and are sailing to London to make a fresh start. But someone knows they are coming, and is lying in wait to lure them into the darkest heart of the city. Meanwhile, Raphah, who has had a narrow escape of his own, [...]

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Forged in the Fire

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

London, 1665. Cast out by his father for becoming a Quaker, the newly independent Will travels from the countryside to London to earn a living. He and his beloved Susanna wait patiently to be reunited and, at last, married. But when Will is thrown into jail for his beliefs, the pair’s future becomes uncertain. The [...]

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The Death Collector

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

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The Wrong Hands

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated.

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