Meloy, Maile.

The apothecary / Maile Meloy ; with illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. - New York : Puffin Books, 2013, c2011. - 353 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Wilson's Junior High School, October 2012 School Library Journal, December 2011 Pub Weekly, September 2011 New York Times, October 2011 Horn Book, April 2012 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2011 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2011 Kirkus Review, September 2011 Library Media Connection, March 2012 Wilson's Junior High School School Library Journal Pub Weekly

Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.

4.9 Follett Library Resources 5-8 Follett Library Resources 5-8 740 Lexile

9780142422069 (pbk.) 9780329981433 (Follett bdg.) 0142422061 0329981439


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Alchemy--Juvenile fiction.
Cold War--Fiction.
Alchemy--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Cold war--Fiction.
Alchemy--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.


London (England)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Juvenile fiction.
London (England)--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Fiction.
London (England)--History--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--1952---Fiction.


Adventure fiction.

PZ7.M516354 / Ap 2013

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