Title The truth about Verity Sparks / Susan Green

Published Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books Australia, 2011 Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books, 2011

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Description 297 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series NSW Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6 Green, Susan. Verity Sparks ; 1 Children's Book Council of Australia awards 2012 NSW Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6 Summary Verity Sparks is good at finding lost things, but will she be able to uncover the truth about her own past? Verity Sparks is a thirteen-year-old orphan working as a milliner in Victorian London. But Verity is no ordinary girl - she has an almost perfect memory and possesses the talent of Teleagtivism. She can easily find things that are lost! When Verity is wrongly accused of theft and dismissed from her job, she goes to live with the Plushes - a slightly Bohemian family who run a Confidential Inquiry Agency. Verity helps them solve cases and slowly becomes one of the family. But patches of the truth about her past begin to surface, along with the special talent that Professor Plush is helping her explore Analysis Australian juvenile Nonfiction Notes NSW Premiers Reading Challenge 5-6 Audience For primary school age Notes Children's Book Council of Australia honour book, younger readers Subject Premier's Reading Challenge (N.S.W.). Years 5-6 Australian fiction -- 21st century. Australian fiction. Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (shortlisted) Children's stories. Detective and mystery stories. Detective and mystery stories, English. Hstorical fiction Orphans -- Fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. SUBJECT London (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005665 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 London (England) -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078205 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 London (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005665 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 London (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005665 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction. LC no. 2012452212 ISBN 9781921720277 (paperback)

Other Titles Verity Sparks

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