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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Rebels grow anxious behind closed doors while Thea, Freddy, Nan, and Sigi are caught in the crossfire of the revolution which has left bodies lining the streets of Urobrun, but as the battle lines are drawn, the greater threat of losing magic forever casts a dark shadow over the land.
3) Phasma
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Description
"One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the favor of her superiors, the respect of her peers, and the terror of her enemies. But for all her renown, Phasma remains as virtually unknown as the impassive expression on her gleaming chrome helmet. Now, an adversary is bent on unearthing her mysterious origins -- and exposing a secret she guards as zealously and ruthlessly as she serves her masters. Deep...
Author
Series
Dayworld volume 3
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1990
Description
Duncan, the daybreaker who lives seven days a week, with the help of his lover, is determined to expose a plot and reveal the discovery of longer lifespan.
5) Unwind
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illéa, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illéa's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The story of Irish nationalism, from the legendary king Brian Boru, who united the chieftains of Ireland to drive out the Vikings, to the conflict in Northern Ireland. In a fast-paced narrative, Terry Golway tells a thousand years of Irish history, describing the achievements of the patriots who kept alive the dream of Irish freedom until they finally succeeded. Among the stories--some famous, some little-known--are those of Wolfe Tone, a leader of...
11) The one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Morgan Llywelyn's masterly epic, the Irish Century, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921.
The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend, Harpreet, are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob, Peter Ivey"--
14) The lacemaker
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Lady Elizabeth "Liberty" Lawson, daughter of the British lieutenant governor of the Virginia Colony, seems to have her life in order. But colonial Williamsburg is a powder keg on the verge of exploding, and her fiance's cousin Noble Rynallt carries the flame of revolution in his heart. Will she stay true to her English roots, or side with Noble and the radical revolutionaries?
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions. With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Over a decade ago a team of revolutionaries called the Killjoys lost their lives while saving a mysterious young girl from the tyrannical megacorporation Better Living Industries. Today, the Killjoys live on in memory, if not belief, as BLI widens its reach and freedom fades. The Girl, now grown, reemerges and is put in the spotlight as a savior, a role she knows nothing about. But with the new revolution hell bent on body counts, the Girl must look...
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