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Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.
Author
Series
Prairie dreams volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne, are searching for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, the greenhorns secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train. Will the ladies succeed in their quest or succumb to the malfeasance of the mysterious man dogging their heels?
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bedelia misunderstands what her employer wants her to do, and ends up campaigning for the office of mayor.
Author
Series
This woven kingdom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Clashing empires, forbidden romance, and a long-forgotten queen destined to save her people—bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s first in an epic, romantic trilogy inspired by Persian mythology.
To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.
The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that...
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992], c1963
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
Author
Series
Amelia Bedelia series volume 16
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from...
9) No moon
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the summer of 1956, and the aging butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Emily Proudman's life is in chaos. She's just lost her acting agent and her job in one miserable day. Scott Denny has a problem. Even though he's a successful CEO, neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can come close to fixing it. He's at a breaking point. Until he meets Emily. Emily is friendly and agreeable. Emily is desperate. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily what seems the perfect summer job as a housekeeper and nanny on his remote French...
12) House of secrets
Author
Series
House of secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A servant's daughter and a doctor's son who were raised in the same household develop a romantic relationship that is threatened by the doctor's new wife.
"Ever since Fern could remember, she and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family. She may have been a servant, but Fern developed a sweet friendship with Dr. Davenport's son, Ryder, and she was even allowed free range of the estate. But...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When servant girl Milla witnesses a murder and finds herself caring for the last four dragon eggs, she is forced to keep them secret amidst the growing tensions in the city. But how can Milla and her friends keep the eggs safe when it means endangering everything she's ever loved? Fiery friendships, forgotten family, and the struggle for power collide as Milla's fight to save the dragons leads her to discover her own hidden past."--Book jacket.
Author
Language
English
Description
The house cleaner of a famous author must carry out her employer's shocking last wish in this delightful new novel from beloved author Phaedra Patrick Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make ends meet, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can't believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating...
Author
Series
Apart from the crowd volume v 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Gertrude Cadwalader hoped her position as the paid companion to Mrs. Davenport would be easy. But as she becomes acquainted with her employer, she realizes the wealthy Mrs. Davenport has a strange tendency to be a bit light-fingered with other people's trinkets. Gertrude is relieved when Mrs. Davenport decides to have a quiet summer away from the social scene--until the woman changes her mind in order to help a young socialite launch into society....
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at one English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years she has been the secret lover to Paul...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Capable and hardworking ten-year-old Clover Twig takes a job as housekeeper for a messy witch, Demelza, but while Demelza is away Clover and an accident-prone neighbor boy must defend the weird cottage from the witch's evil sister.
20) The friend
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With Mom too busy and Dad away much of the time, Belle finds companionship with a household employee who after each day's work takes Belle "hand in hand" to the beach.
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