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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
140 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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?"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dedicated to Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, a first novel since the author's Man Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending reimagines the young musician's difficult creative compromises in the aftermath of his denouncement by Joseph Stalin.
6) Dog star
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...