A spy in the house
Title
:
A spy in the house
Personal Author EPSB
:
Y. S. Lee
Summary
:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Year Published
:
2009-2010
Series
:
The Agency ;
Volume
:
bk. 1
Physical Description
:
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Program Information
:
Gr. 7+
Subject
:
Orphans -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Mystery fiction.
Summary
:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
ISBN
:
9780763652890
9780763640675
Publisher
:
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2009.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| A. Blair McPherson | HIS LEE | Book | 31458000058084 | Historical Fiction |