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Gr 7 Up—AJ Flynn is a typical underachiever. He has failed all but one of his final exams, and now that he is 17, his future seems grim. Despite his less than stellar academic career, AJ lands an interview with a prestigious London law firm thanks to his mother's connections. Once he is hired, AJ finds a key that opens ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Channeling Leon Garfield or Joan Aiken, perhaps, Gardner (I, Coriander, rev. 11/05; Maggot Moon, rev. 3/13) sets this murder mystery and coming-of-age novel partly in contemporary London and partly in the sordid, conniving underworld of the same city in 1830. In the modern world, AJ Flynn, abused, fatherless, a boy whose friends are other at-risk teens,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In contemporary London, AJ Flynn, working as a junior clerk at a law firm, discovers a key that leads him to the past--a past...Log In or Sign Up to Read More