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Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
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
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fate of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
5) Granny Dan
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A motherless young girl becomes a great ballerina and a favorite of the Russian imperial family but when the revolution shatters the country, her life is changed forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion, devastating loss, and the private...
Author
Series
Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 7
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1917, Russia lies in ashes. The tsar has been imprisoned, and the government remains unstable. Amid the turmoil, Anna Fedorcenko's sons, Andrei and Yuri, face the consequences of their personal and political choices. As they gather what's left of their lives, they will need the faith and love that have become the Fedorcenko and Burenin legacy more than ever.
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
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Spanning 80 tumultuous years, the incredible story of a peasant girl who became the Red Princess of the Russian Revolution. Anna Mayakovsky is now a penniless old woman living in London, but no one can take away the vivid memories of her past: the Count who lifted her out of poverty; the Count?s son, Misha, whose baby she bore; Paul, the ruthless factory owner who became her lover and her deadliest enemy; Sasha, the tough but gentle peasant who converted...
10) White blood
Author
Series
Charlie Doig thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Doig is an explorer and naturalist caught up in the outbreak of the Russian Revolution. Trapped by the snow with his love, Elizaveta, they at first remain untouched by outside events and the familiar ways continue. But imperial Russia is doomed and with it all the old certainties.
14) Risked
Author
Series
The missing volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
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.
15) 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"--
1917. Russia is losing the war with Germany, soldiers are deserting in droves, and food shortages on the home front are pushing people to the brink of revolution. Katya is politically conflicted, but she wants Russia to win the war. When the government begins recruiting...
16) Homecoming
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Their lives in a small Ukrainian town dramatically changed by the 1917 Revolution, the six Koshansky children and their mother struggle to survive in an increasingly hostile environment; after the mother's death, the children escape to America.
Author
Series
Revolution of Marina M volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Marina Makarova epic journey continue... a young Russian woman comes into her own in the midst of revolution and civil war. After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War--pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her child and eventually make her way back to her...
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"--
20) Polostan
Author
Series
Bomb Light volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her...
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