Books with title Fall from Grace

Helen James is enjoying a school trip to Beachy Head standing on the cliff edge taking photographs of the lighthouse below when a gust of wind overbalances Helen and she starts to fall but she is saved by Hyming, the 'Visitant' sent to collect Helen, for Helen is a 'Good'. The task set for today was one where she had little knowledge. The planet Chilren has produced no offspring for the last 8 years and unless they start soon it will be too late. Helen told Zacred, the 'Visitants' leader she had no knowledge of these things but he said she was a 'Good' and as such could do it. By the time Hyming took Helen home she appeared to have failed.

Branded a witch and exiled after a dishonorable display at the king’s annual tournament, quiet Grace Hilren is forced to uproot her life of luxury as a lord’s daughter and move to the slums of the port city, Glenbard. But Grace carries a secret. Though trained to be a fine lady, she also learned to handle a sword and has made it her mission to eradicate evil and injustice where she finds it. Even in exile, Grace continues her work under the given name of Death Dealer. Her nightly deeds bring her to the notice of the self-proclaimed King of Thieves, Marcus. When the king’s power is threatened by a rival named Mac, the Death Dealer unwittingly becomes a pawn in the struggle between thieves for control of the lower city. The game becomes dangerous as Grace realizes she may not be able to best this usurper.

This is the 3rd in the Helen James series. 9 year old Helen James is on a school trip when she falls over a cliff edge but is saved by Hyming. The 'Visitants' had sent Hyming to collect Helen and take her across the universe to meet up with the 'Visitants' near to the planet Chrilren. Helen is required to stop this planet from destroying itself but to her this problem is outside her realms but Zacred would not listen to her and sent her down to the planet and put things right. No matter how hard she tried the beings would not listen to Helen and so she returned home thinking she had failed. The Visitants also thought she had failed them and the beings on Chrilren.

Life has been nothing but unfair to Grace Parkes and her sister. Penniless, the two orphans manage to stay alive-but only barely, like so many on the streets of Victorian London. And Grace must bear a greater heartbreak, having become pregnant from terrible circumstances and then given birth to a stillborn baby. But the infant's death sets Grace on a new path, bringing her into contact with people who hold both riches and power. A great fraud has been perpetrated on young Grace and her sister, and they are the secret recipients of a most unusual legacy-if only they can find the means to claim it. Mary Hooper's latest offers Dickensian social commentary, as well as malicious fraud, mysterious secrets, and a riveting read.

London, 1861. Each day Grace must find a new way of earning enough money to pay the rent for the bleak, cold room that she and her sister live in, and to buy them enough - just - to eat.But there is a different danger threatening Grace, a danger linked to an event in her past that she is desperate to forget. Grace has caught the eye of the Unwins, an unscrupulous family whose shady business dealings are those of death and mourning, and who will stop at nothing to defraud two young women of what is rightfully theirs...A gripping, fast-paced novel for older children about two poverty-stricken sisters and their struggle to survive in Victorian London.