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Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 3
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to save them. Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, "The twelve dancing princesses."
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 7
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Spotlight hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving into the Rousseau manor with her mother, the cook, Camille discovers hidden treasures that unlock the secrets of the Rousseau family.
5) The gallery
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Life is best...
14) Rose
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
While others at St. Bridget's Home for Abandoned Girls dream of adoption, Rose wants only a job and independence until she is hired as maid to Mr. Fountain, an alchemist, and realizes that she, like his grand residence, is filled with magic.
15) Gloom town
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton MIfflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having published his tell-all memoir, put-upon butler Tristan Benway returns to work for the eccentric Bellweather family at Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, only to break his leg when the triplets destroy the lighthouse stairs.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
157 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ida Early, who keeps house for the Sutton family in rural Georgia during the Depression, becomes the unwitting target of the children's matchmaking schemes during the holiday season.
Author
Language
English
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"As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal racism and sexism, Katherine faced daily challenges. Still, she lived her life with her father's...
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