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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
2) Torch
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
Formats
Description
In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East - with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc - controlled Eastern side. Then, just a month ago, Marta's brother became a victim of schiessbefehl, the standing order to fire upon anyone who dared pass into the West. With her family and nation both fractured, Marta will soon be faced with a promising - but dangerous - opportunity....
7) Dog star
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog named Laika, who dreams of finding a home and is being studied in Nina's father's lab as part of the Soviet space program.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Author
Series
Foul Lady Fortune volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Shanghái, 1931: el escenario está preparado para una nueva década de intrigas Hace cuatro años, Rosalind Lang fue rescatada del borde de la muerte, pero el extraño experimento que la salvó le impide dormir y envejecer… y también le permite ser capaz de curarse de cualquier herida. En resumen, Rosalind no puede morir. Ahora, desesperada por redimirse de su pasado de traiciones, utiliza sus habilidades como asesina para servir a su país....
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