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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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.
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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Czechoslovakia, 1969. Seventeen-year-old Pavol has watched his country's freedoms disappear in the wake of the Soviet Union's invasion. He's seen his own dreams disappear too. In a desperate, fatal act of protest against the oppressive new government, he sets himself on fire in public, hoping to motivate others to fight for change. Instead, Pavol's death launches a government investigation into three of his closest friends. Štěpán finds his Olympic...
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging--and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate...
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