Meloy, Maile. <br/><br/>
The apothecary / 
Maile Meloy ; with illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. 
 - New York :  Puffin Books,  2013, c2011. 
 - 353 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Wilson's Junior High School, October 2012  School Library Journal, December 2011  Pub Weekly, September 2011  New York Times, October 2011  Horn Book, April 2012  Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2011  Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2011  Kirkus Review, September 2011  Library Media Connection, March 2012 
<br/><br/> Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets. 
<br/><br/> 4.9.  5-8  Follett School Solutions. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0142422061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cold war--Fiction.<br/>Alchemy--Fiction.<br/>Adventure fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>London (England)--History--Fiction.<br/>Great Britain--History--1952---Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Adventure fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.M516354  / Ap 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]