Bibliography: Lee, Y.S. (2010, March). The Agency 1: A Spy in the House. Somerville, MA: 9780763640675
Plot Summary: Thief and housebreaker Mary Quinn is rescued from Old Bailey and educated at Miss Scrimshaw’s Academy for Girls for a chance at a better life. She tries her hand at several careers but is bored and uninspired. Two [...]
I think I first read the Little House on the Prairie series in the summer time, but it is the winter scenes that really stick with me still. Snow angels and sugaring snow, making pictures in the frost on the window, twisting hay and grinding wheat, Pa getting lost in a snow storm…Maybe because this [...]
Bibliography: Nunn, Malla. (2009). A Beautiful Place to Die. New York: Atria Books ISBN: 978-1416586203
Plot Summary: In the early 1950s South Africa where new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, Detective Sargeant Emmanuel Cooper is called to the small town of Jacob’s Rest when white Afrikaner police captain from a prominent family is found [...]
Bibliography: Slade, Arthur. (September 2009). The Hunchback Assignments. New York: Random House Children’s Books. ISBN: 9780385737845
Plot Summary: Mr. Socrates rescued Modo from traveling freak show when he was just a baby. He recognized his special morphological skill, and had him trained as an agent for his secret society in Victorian London. Together with another teen [...]
Bibliography: Upson, Nicola. (2008). An Expert in Murder. New York: Harper. ISBN: 978-0061451539
Plot Summary: Playwright and mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling to London to see the last week of her hit play on stage. On the train she meets a fan, who is found brutally murdered soon after arriving at the station. Tey’s friend [...]