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A taste for monsters / Matthew J. Kirby.

Summary:

In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780545817844
  • ISBN: 0545817846
  • Physical Description: 343 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2016.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
850L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.7 14 185151.
Subject: Merrick, Joseph Carey, 1862-1890 > Fiction.
Jack, the Ripper > Fiction.
Phosphorus > Physiological effect > Fiction.
Neurofibromatosis > Fiction.
Serial murders > England > London > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > England > London > History > 19th century > Fiction.
London (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Ghost stories.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 8 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.

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