SOLVED. Middle Grade/ Juvenile Fiction: a standalone book about a girl in poverty and a boy with an eye patch? Spoilers. [s]

[HK]

Hello!
This was a standalone juvenile fiction book I read around 2017~2019-ish. The main character (and the point of view) of the story was the girl character, who if I remember correctly lived in poverty in an old London-esque kind of city/era. She meets a boy around her age (they're like 11? 12? 14?) who (this might be from somewhere else... not sure) has an eye patch.

(SPOILERS!) The boy is actually the son of the mayor or some other high and important figure, and he suspects his brother is trying to kill the father? or something. He'd snuck off, and later in the story he's sort of grounded (or at least not allowed out). There is a scene in which the girl attends a tea party held by a girl she didn't really like, and in another scene they go to the boy's home and she hides under the desk, overhears a conversation, etc.
At the end, the boy's brother gives her a carriage ride home, and they talk about stuff for a bit together before she is dropped off.

[Tab]

Do you remember the main plot of the book? What sort of things do the boy and girl do together?
Anything about the cover?
How far in the book does the reader find out that the boy is the mayor's son?

[HK]

Tab wrote: "Do you remember the main plot of the book? What sort of things do the boy and girl do together?
Anything about the cover?
How far in the book does the reader find out that the boy is the mayor's son?"

uhhh the main plot was them going against the brother-- trying to figure out what the brother was doing, investigating (so i guess it was more a mystery novel??), trying to figure things out... magic may or may not have been a part of this, I don't quite remember. D: I have no idea what the cover looked like, unfortunately.
It took about... halfway through? for the reader and the girl to find out that the boy is not what he seems/is the son of the higher-up figure. Unfortunately, I really don't remember much else except that I liked reading it a lot. :(

[HK]

bumping :)

[HK]

Hello! I don't know how to move this into the solved section, but I went to the library and miraculously found the book!! It's called A Pocket Full of Murder by R.J. Anderson. :))

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, HK. Here's the link - A Pocket Full of Murder by R.J. Anderson.

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