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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A moral thriller about the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after World War II follows the experiences of Brand, a hunted refugee, who assumes a different identity and commits himself to the revolution while accepting increasingly dangerous missions.
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume Related title
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In two revealing prequels to Red Queen, Queen Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life. Meanwhile, Captain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance--and stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to an attack on the Nortan capital: Mare Barrow.
Author
Series
Wells of Sorcery volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, while Isoka and the Soliton's crew search for a way to recapture the ship and leave the Harbor, Tori escapes the comfort of Kahnzoka's Second Ward to help run a shelter for fugitive mage-bloods and becomes embroiled in revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When one of Ezra Bridger's heists goes horribly wrong, he finds himself thrown together with a team of rebels, who are on a mission to free enslaved Wookiees from an Imperial prison.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.
66) The fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
Author
Series
Song of silver volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Lan's last remnant of her mother--and the fallen Hin dynasty of her ancestors--is a symbol seared onto her wrist, which, if the mysterious boy she encounters is to be trusted, may be the key to freeing her people by mastering the ancient, forgotten art of practitioning.
68) Corona cruel
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
In "Queen Song," Queen Coriane keeps a secret diary that recounts her heady courtship, Cal's birth, and the challenges in her royal life; and in "Steel Scars," Captain Farley is tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta.
69) Gamechanger
Author
Series
The bounceback volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery...
70) More perfect
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure, this riveting science fiction novel is set in a near-future London where it has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience directly as an augmented reality. However, the British government has taken oversight of this access to an extreme, slowly tilting towards a dystopian overreach, all in the name of safety"--
71) Shattered
Author
Series
Slated trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Sporting a new identity and desperate to fill in the blank spaces of her life pre-Slating, Kyla heads to a remote mountain town to try to reunite with the birth mother she was kidnapped from as a child. There she is hoping all the pieces of her life will come together and she can finally take charge of her own future"--
72) Seven mercies
Author
Series
Seven devils volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After the ambush to the Novantae resistance, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Then Ariadne receives a message: the Oracle has gone rogue. The AI wants One's daughter back and will do anything to get her. The seven devils realize they must get to the heart of the Empire and destroy the Oracle, no matter the sacrifice.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books , Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Living safe and anonymous after the Battle of Neo Seoul, telepath Ama does not expect to be approached by a resistance group to help expose a government experiment similar to the one she successfully fled. Once she accepts, however, her assignments get more dangerous until she finds herself manipulating the mind of the boy she once loved and was betrayed by, so she can unseat him as commander of the Alliance.
75) Free fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a few years since Poe's mother, who was a pilot for the Rebellion, passed away, and Poe and his father have had more and more trouble connecting. Not sure what he wants to do with his life, teenage Poe runs away from home to find adventure, and to figure out what kind of man he is meant to be."--publisher
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh,...
78) Disclose
Author
Series
Verify volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Meri Buckley has lost everything. She lost her mother to a fight much bigger than herself. Her father to grief, fear, and denial. And the truth--to an overbearing government that insists that censorship and secrecy is the only path to peace. But though Meri and her band of truth-seeking Stewards did lose the first battle in their quest to enlighten the public, they have not yet lost the war. Meri can start the revolution she seeks, if the powerful...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rebels and revolutionaries disappear into the infamous prison, the Nine, never to be heard from again. Masked police roam the streets, dark magic lurks in the shadows, and the implacable flying fortress casts its baleful eye over all below. Sæmundur, addict and sorcerer, has been cast out from university, and forbidden to study magic. Dissident artist, Garún, is desperate for a just society and will do anything to achieve it. Both seek revolution...
80) Attack surface
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
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