A spy in the house
Titre
:
A spy in the house
Y. S. Lee
Sommaire
:
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.
Date de publication comme intervalle
:
2009-2010
The Agency ;
bk. 1
Description matérielle
:
335 p. ; 22 cm.
Informations sur le programme
:
Gr. 7+
Terme de vedette-matière
:
Orphans -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Terme géographique
:
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Mystery fiction.
Résumé
:
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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
:
9780763652890
9780763640675
Informations de publication
:
Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010, c2009.
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
|---|
| A. Blair McPherson | HIS LEE | Book | 31458000058084 | Historical Fiction |