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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
3) Stalin
Author
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of the man who shaped the Soviet Union, from pre-revolutionary Russia to its evolution as a superpower and the descent of the "Iron Curtain."
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Soviet dictator and the men and women who surrounded him focuses on the foundation of human, psychological, and physical supports that encouraged him through the early days of Communism, World War II, and the Great Terror
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Stalin's obsession with the missing gold of Tsar Nicholas II has finally found meaning. Russia stands at the brink of war with the mighty German army. It is broke, barely able to feed its people, much less fight a war against an enemy bent on its destruction. Stalin must find that gold, and so when a rumor comes out of the Gulag, and it proves to have credible elements, Stalin leaps into action.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive--and protect...
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