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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection.
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Series
Dreaming Anastasia trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Chicagoan Anne and handsome, magical Ethan tell of their fated quest to rescue Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia, who tells of her long captivity in the hut of legendary witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters' native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
Author
Series
Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 6
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
As Russia plunges from World War I into the ensuing civil war between the Bolsheviks and an army of White Russians, Anna Fedorcenko's family is caught in the middle of conflicting national interests.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Interrogated by the provisional government of revolutionary Russia on the details of her father's death, Maria, the daughter of Rasputin, remembers her father's powerful influence over the throne and her struggles over the discovery of his true nature.
Author
Series
Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
She was raised as the daughter of peasants . . . but she was born the only child of a princess.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As war approaches, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov trades her gown for a nursing habit, but when troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the Front and the controversy over Rasputin grows into a fiery protest, a call for revolution threatens to end three hundred years of Romanov rule.
12) The wolf wilder
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.
13) Dancing bears
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Early this century a Russian landowner invites an American colleague to hunt bear on his estate. For John Sherwood, it's the start of an incredible adventure as the bears turn out to be shape-shifting men. One of them is the landowner's brother, Maxim, and he mauls Sherwood, who subsequently becomes a shape-shifting bear himself and falls in love with Natalya, the landowner's sister. Political interest is added by Maxim being a state policeman and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II describes the privileged life in her family up until the time of WWI and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Mariana, serving as a nurse with the Russian army in Manchuria, renews her friendship with American reporter Daniel Trent, while revolutionary forces gain momentum in St. Petersburg and a vengeful man plots to kill Mariana and her family.
18) The amber keeper
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother's death. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken to hear that they blame her for the tragedy. Determined to uncover her mother's past, Abbie approaches her beloved grandmother, Millie,...
19) The lost crown
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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.