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Author
Series
System divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
Author
Series
History of the English Speaking Peoples volume Volume 3
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Series
Twisted tale volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"Aladdin is a street rat. There's really no getting around that. Like most, he's just trying to survive another day in impoverished Agrabah. Jasmine is a princess, one who is about to enter into an arranged marriage. All she wants is to escape her fate, to see what lies beyond the palace walls. But everything changes when the sultan's trusted advisor, Jafar, suddenly rises to power. With the help of an ancient lamp, Jafar becomes determined to break...
67) Lord Jim
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat,...
Author
Series
Little Lenin library volume 14
Publisher
International publishers
Pub. Date
[1935]
Language
English
69) If we survive
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
Author
Series
Theory out of bounds volume 15
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
72) Contrarian
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 3
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After his patron is assassinated, Counselor and Isolate Steffan Dekkard must handle political infighting and ongoing assassination attempts while uncovering who is supplying arms to insurrectionists.
"In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of Sixty-Six,...
74) Revolution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
IG 890L
Language
English
Description
Presents in newspaper format facts relating to the French, American, Russian, and Chinese revolutions.
75) Impossible individuality: Romanticism, revolution, and the origins of modern selfhood, 1787-1802
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
76) Riot baby
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Respected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East. The recent powerful wave of Middle East uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ultimate fate-and fallout-of the Arab spring continue to hang in the balance. Born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt and now living in the United States, Nonie Darwish brings an...
78) The expendables
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
79) Glory
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An explosive novel about the chaos of revolution, Glory centres around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional African country, and the drama that follows for an unruly nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe--Zimbabwe's president who took office in 1980 and...never left--Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding,...
80) It ends in fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Raised by an underground rebel group after the murder of her parents, seventeen-year-old Alka goes undercover at the most prestigious school of magic in an attempt to recruit for the rebellion and win the Great Game which would give her access to the seat of her en'emies power.