Title A spy in the house / Y.S. Lee.

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First U.S. edition.

Publication Info.

Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2010.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1443621~S1

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Naper Blvd. Teen Fiction	TEEN LEE	AVAILABLE
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Description	335 pages ; 22 cm
Series	Lee. Ying S. Agency ; 1.
Note	"A Mary Quinn mystery"--Jacket.
Summary	Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, 17-year-old 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 in order to infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
Subject	Women spies -- Fiction.
	Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
	Household employees -- Fiction.
	Sex role -- Fiction.
	Orphans -- Fiction.
	Teenage girl orphans -- Fiction.
	Eighteen fifties -- Fiction.
	Smuggling -- Fiction.
	Teeanage girls -- England -- Fiction.
	History mystery fiction.
	Detective and mystery stories.
	London (England) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
	Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction.
Genre	Mystery fiction.
	Young adult fiction.
ISBN	9780763640675 (hardcover)
	0763640670 (hardcover)

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