JFIC Stand Alone Books


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Book cover for "Bletchley riddle"
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4 stars
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"This middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance."--
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4.3 stars
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A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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"A young boy, his great-uncle, and a friendly gorilla from the London Zoo uncover a Nazi plot in wartime Britain"--
Book cover for "The door in the wall"
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3.8 stars
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The crippled son of a powerful nobleman in fourteenth-century England sets out to prove his courage and his right to be recognized by the King. A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.
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5 stars
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When young pickpocket Danny accidentally buys an elephant at an auction, he finds himself swept up on an unforgettable adventure. Offered a job by a zookeeper, all he has to do is ride Maharajah from Edinburgh to Manchester--in one week.
Book cover for "Great expectations"
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5 stars
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The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.
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3.7 stars
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed.
Book cover for "The mouse with the question mark tail"
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3.5 stars
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A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Book cover for "Nooks & crannies"
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4.5 stars
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Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir.
Book cover for "Oliver Twist"
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4.8 stars
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An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Book cover for "Our castle by the sea"
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4.4 stars
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England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pets world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is the story of a girl who is small, afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overhead. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters...
Book cover for "A place to hang the moon"
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5 stars
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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.
Book cover for "The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place"
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4.2 stars
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"Seven very proper Victorian young ladies conspire to hide a murder from the authorities at their boarding school"--
Book cover for "The secrets of Lovelace Academy"
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Twelve-year-old orphan Lainey attends a prestigious boarding school with dreams of a new start, but a chain of events leads her to Switzerland in search of a trailblazing female scientist.
Book cover for "Splendors and glooms"
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5 stars
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When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
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4.9 stars
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In nineteenth-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow, ten, works as a "climbing boy," aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
Book cover for "The war I finally won"
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4.9 stars
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As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front.
Book cover for "The war that saved my life"
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4.7 stars
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
Book cover for "Wings to soar"
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5 stars
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In 1972 Viva and her Indian family were forced to leave Uganda--now in a resettlement camp in England she struggles to cope with the living conditions there, hoping that her father may join them soon.
Book cover for "Winnie's great war"
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4.5 stars
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An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh. "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary...