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21) The king and I
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the musical, with additions such as an evil sorceror plotting to steal the throne and playful new characters "kids will love"
23) The Secret Woman
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna Brett fears she's doomed to be a governess to an English family for the rest of her life. But when the dashing captain Redvers Stretton struts back into her life, she is whisked away from the bleak English countryside forever. But is that such a good thing? While the charming blue-eyed captain makes Anna forget her troubled past, he is hiding dark secrets of his own. It's no coincidence that Stretton's ship is named The Secret Woman. During...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
25) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book 4 in the fan-favorite Mad Morelands series from New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp!
Had Theo Moreland, the Marquess of Raine, killed her brother? And had the treasure the two men sought in South America hastened his descent to an early grave? American journalist Megan Mulcahey has to discover the truth. But to find out, she needs to infiltrate the marquess's household.
The new American governess intrigues Theo. Wanderlust has always...
Author
Series
Rogues to lovers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Girls Before Earls is the delightful first novel in the Rogues to Lovers series from romance author Anna Bennett.
What a girl wants
To survive her difficult childhood, Miss Hazel Lively relied on two things: a tough exterior and a love of books. Now, she's realized her life-long dream of opening a school for girls. She's hoping the wealthy families who summer at the shore will entrust their daughters to Bellehaven Academy - and help pay for less...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons-who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children...."--Back cover.
29) The unmapped sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to break the wolfish curse that is threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner.
Author
Series
Cornwall novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the first of a new series from beloved Regency romance author, Sarah Ladd, Delia, a governess to five recently orphaned children, would risk anything to protect them . . . even her heart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's twin children. Falling under the de Greys' spell, Alice...
Author
Series
Rebel mechanics novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1888 New York City, sixteen-year-old governess Verity Newton agrees to become a spy, whatever the risk, after learning that the man for whom she has feelings sympathizes with rebels developing non-magical sources of power, via steam engines, in hopes of gaining freedom from British rule.
Author
Series
Publisher
NLA Digital
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Tea, Love ... and Revolution! The Rebel Mechanics aren't the only group plotting revolution against the magical British Empire. There are rebel magisters, as well, and Verity Newton and her magister employer, Lord Henry, know that the only way for the revolution to succeed is if both groups work together. A diplomatic mission seems like the perfect opportunity for them to meet with rebels in other colonies and gather support--right under the governor's...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family "cottage" shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child, until evil characters tried to take her away.
37) The unseen guest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The children and Penelope, their governess, leave London and return to Ashton Place where Penelope decides to take matters into her own hands and do some investigating to find out the truth about the children, Lord Ashton, and herself.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
39) Devil's bride
Author
Series
Cynster novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England′s most eligible bachelor, Devil′s infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date.
But Honoria wasn′t about to...
Author
Series
Barrington family saga volume 1
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strange and disturbing conversation overheard while secretly perusing the pages of the family Bible in the Barringtonś study . . .A mysterious yet intriguing book of scripture left unattended on the street . . .An elusive new religion that beckons from halfway across the world . . .The daunting task of becoming the governess to the Barrington children . . .A proposal of marriage without a declaration of love . . .Thus begins an epic that takes...
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