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A spy in the house

Author: Y S Lee
Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st U.S. edView all editions and formats
Summary:
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
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Genre/Form: Young adult fiction
Historical mystery novels
Historical fiction
Mystery fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Y S Lee
ISBN: 9780763640675 0763640670 9780763652890 076365289X
OCLC Number: 430839049
Description: 335 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Y.S. Lee.

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Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

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highly recommend!

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2011-06-10) Excellent Permalink

Mary Quinn nearly died on the gallows, but fate had plans for her. At age 17 she is teaching at the Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, but unknown to many it is a front for her work in the Agency (a secret women's detective agency). Mary goes undercover pretending to be a lady's companion to discover...
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