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Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five of the most popular Amelia Bedelia books in one collection! Amelia Bedelia is the world's most literal-minded housekeeper, who causes quite a ruckus whenever she's given a chance. In Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower, she arrives with a garden hose and the party is turned into an uproarious mess. In Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia, her literal-mindedness adds a new dimension to the game of baseball, and Thank You, Amelia Bedelia features Amelia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having published his tell-all memoir, put-upon butler Tristan Benway returns to work for the eccentric Bellweather family at Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, only to break his leg when the triplets destroy the lighthouse stairs.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bored and in need of money, Anastasia, inspired by the novels of Mary Roberts Rinehart, seeks a job as a companion to a wealthy, elderly woman, but the job is nothing like she expected.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Clover Twig has been warned about The Perilous Path, but when her baby brother goes missing she and her friend Wilf must travel that tricky trail to rescue him from the clutches of Mesmeranza, the evil sister of Clover's employer, Mrs. Eckles.
11) Crier's war
Author
Series
Crier's war volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a war where Automae took over the kingdom of Rabu and bent humanity to their will, Ayla takes a job as a servant in the house of the sovereign for one purpose: to get revenge for her family's death by killing his daughter. Lady Crier, the heiress, was Made to be a perfect ruler of the kingdom, but she no longer knows if that is what she wants once she discovers some of her father's cruel secrets. Between this betrayal, and a betrothed...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family in the year 1900, where she faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands of an exhausting yet exhilerating job. Her struggle to be a good servant is compounded when she discovers, on the grounds of the Studebaker estate, the body of a woman just returned from missionary work in China.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aaron Burr was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. But there were dark whispers about him: that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever he believed should be his. Sold into slavery as a child in India, Mary Emmons was brought to an America torn by war. Toughened by the experiences of her...
14) The gallery
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"1855, New Hampshire. Lucy Blunt is set to hang for a double murder. Murderess or victim? Only Lucy knows the truth. In the shadow of the gallows, Lucy reflects on the events that led to her bitter downfall--from the moment she arrived at the rambling Burton mansion looking for work and a better life to the grisly murders themselves. In a mysterious household of locked doors and forbidden affections, Lucy slips comfortably into the shadows, where...
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