City of orphans
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1870s London, a young orphan girl becomes the apprentice to a man who traps monsters for a living.
Many orphans in Victorian England must resort to begging - but Birdie is busy catching monsters...If ever a chill entered her soul, or the hope suddenly drained from her heart, she knew a bogle was to blame...Birdie McAdam, a ten-year-old orphan, is tougher than she looks. She's proud of her job as apprentice to Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches...
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City of orphans volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles-until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London, needs a new apprentice. As more and more orphans disappear under mysterious circumstances, Alfred, Jem, and Birdie find themselves waging an underground war in...
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Series
City of orphans volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
With the plague of bogles in Victorian London barely contained, bogle hunter Alfred Bunce needs all the help he can get. So Ned Roach becomes a boglers apprentice, luring child-eating monsters from their lairs just like his friends Jem and Birdie. Its dangerous work that takes Ned into mysterious and hidden parts of the city. Yet times in London are changing; as the machine age emerges, the very existence of bogles is questioned, and the future of...