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Author
Series
The Revolution of Marina M volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman.
St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join...
St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov embark on radically different paths when their plan to immigrate to America falls afoul. Billy's sister Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy...
12) Open fire
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda LAB
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war"--
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies--Jews and Bolsheviks--his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar's ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family."--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of The Lincolns traces the story of the Russian Revolution, the lives of the Romanov family and the story of their tragic deaths, in an account that draws on primary source materials and includes period photography.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia -- a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party -- agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
18) Risked
Author
Series
The missing volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1920s. Zoya Andropova, a refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov, her luck seems to have...
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