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63) Switched
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.
65) Spilled water
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.
67) Midnight rider
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Boston in 1775, orphaned fourteen-year-old Hannah is indentured to the family of a British general and begins attending secret meetings disguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse Promise. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
72) Always Jane
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When eighteen-year-old chauffer's daughter Jane Marlow falls for Fen while still dating his brother Eddie, she lands in the middle of a longstanding competition between the two brothers that eventually threatens the future of their father's music empire."--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo--servant to Leonardo da Vinci--helps his procrastinating master finish painting "The Last Supper" while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.
80) Possessed
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.
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