An account of an early nineteenth-century British naval officer's experiences as a boy sailor serving under Nelson.

Child o'war: The true story of a boy sailor in Nelson's navy

Garfield, Leon.

Children's Books

Collins

The Pleasure Garden

Asquith, Sooty

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

<p>A Whitbread Award-winning mystery about a young boy lost in Victorian London, pursued by bloodthirsty thieves, desperate to solve the mystery of the man his father wronged</p> <p>What is the matter with old Mr. Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr. Diamond, and swindled him out of a great fortune. William resolves to go to London, find Mr. Diamond and make amends. But the murky big city, with its sinister characters and treacherous back streets, is no place for a boy of 12. And Mr. Diamond's own son is not the sort of person to forgive and forget. Danger and deceit lie waiting. Exclusive material in the back of the book teaches young readers more about the wonderful author and as well as how to have fun with some Cockney rhyming slang.</p>

John Diamond (Vintage Children's Classics)

Vintage Children's Classics

Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.

Smith

Puffin

Fourteen-year-old George's family of traveling actors inform him that he is actually the son of a dying, wealthy man and send him to stay with his real family, a group of mean, sickly, even murderous people.

Devil in the Fog

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

An atmospheric and chilling thriller set in 19th century London. Bartholomew Dorking finds himself inexplicably tied to the murdering villain Black Jack, who should have hung from the gallows - but who has now, it seems, come back from the dead! BLLeon Garfield was one of the most celebrated children's authors of the twentieth century, and won the Guardian Award, The Whitbread Award, and the Carnegie Medal BLThis is a fast-paced, roller-coaster ride of a read, and is accompanied by energetic black and white line drawings by acclaimed artist Jason Cockcroft

Black Jack (Puffin books)

Teen & Young Adult

Mysteries & Thrillers

Orphaned at birth and adopted by a coachman and his wife, a young man struggles to discover his origins.

The Sound of Coaches

Puffin Books

A Whitbread Award-winning mystery about a young boy lost in Victorian London, pursued by bloodthirsty thieves, desperate to solve the mystery of the man his father wronged What is the matter with old Mr. Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr. Diamond, and swindled him out of a great fortune. William resolves to go to London, find Mr. Diamond and make amends. But the murky big city, with its sinister characters and treacherous back streets, is no place for a boy of 12. And Mr. Diamond's own son is not the sort of person to forgive and forget. Danger and deceit lie waiting. Exclusive material in the back of the book teaches young readers more about the wonderful author and as well as how to have fun with some Cockney rhyming slang.

John Diamond

A dozen tales of apprentices in eighteenth-century England portray young boys placed in service for seven years, small wages, and chancy reward and reveal Hogarthian and Dickensian corners of their lives

The Apprentices

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Child o'war: The true story of a boy sailor in Nelson's navy

The Pleasure Garden

Child o'war: The true story of a boy sailor in Nelson's navy

John Diamond (Vintage Children's Classics)

Smith

Devil in the Fog

Black Jack (Puffin books)

The Sound of Coaches

John Diamond

The Apprentices