Amber & Clay by Schlitz, Laura Amy 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2021)

BTSB #: 785638 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Folk Tales, Fables, Mythology

Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction Greek mythology - Fiction Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction Slaves - Fiction Future life - Fiction

Summary: In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos-Amber and Clay-only meet after one of them is a ghost.

Anyone but Ivy Pocket [Ivy Pocket Volume: 1]by Krisp, Caleb 

BTSB Prebound(Greenwillow Books, 2015)

BTSB #: 532949 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG Lexile: 550

Genres: Adventure Fiction Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Adventure fiction Orphans - Fiction Necklaces - Fiction Blessing and cursing - Fiction Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction

Summary: In the first book, fate intervenes when Ivy is called to the sickbed of a dying duchess and is charged with delivering a mystical (and possibly cursed) diamond necklace to the utterly revolting Matilda Butterfield for her twelfth birthday.

Grave robber's apprentice by Stratton, Allan 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2012)

BTSB #: 860417 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.6 MG RC: 3.7 6-8 Lexile: 650

Genres: Adventure Fiction Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Adventure fiction Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Puppet theater - Fiction Grave robbing - Fiction Fantasy fiction

Summary: Hans, a foundling, helps Countess Angela when her dream of being a professional puppeteer is hindered by an evil archduke.

Nooks & crannies by Lawson, Jessica 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015)

BTSB #: 552454 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG RC: 5.4 3-5 Lexile: 820

Genres: Mystery Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Inheritance and succession - Fiction Aristocracy (Social class) - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Mystery fiction Great Britain - History|yEdward VII, 1901-1910 - Fiction

Summary: 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.