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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoyevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering. "Crime and Punishment" put Dostoyevsky at the forefront of Russian writers when it appeared in 1866 and is now one of the most famous and influential novels in world literature.
The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, a talented student, devises a theory about extraordinary men being above...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families. The novel can be generally classified as historical fiction. It contains elements
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?
The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident-unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the...
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
-- The Tattooist of Auschwitz Her beauty saved her — and condemned her. When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child? In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly...
Author
Series
The Crown's Game volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Pasha's coronation approaches, and Vika is now the Imperial Enchanter, but the role she once coveted may be more difficult-- and dangerous-- than she expected. Pasha is grappling with his own problems-- his legitimacy is in doubt, the girl he loves loathes him, and he believes that his best friend is dead. When a challenger to the throne emerges-- and with the magic in Russia growing rapidly-- Pasha must do whatever it takes to keep his position and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, Pytor hides the gift away and Vasya grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
x, 739 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan--
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
315 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
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