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[2013], Pre-adolescent, Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Call No: JUV001000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Alex RiderSummary Note: Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: FIC SEPETYS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Ravel, Edeet2019., Juvenile, Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press Call No: HISTORICAL F RAV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1941, life in Natt's small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grownups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there's a war on, of course, but he's glad their family didn't emigrate to Canada when they had a chance. His mother didn't want to leave their home, and neither did he. He especially wouldn't want to leave his best friend, Max. Max is the ideas guy, and he hears what's going on in the world from his older sisters. Together the boys are two brave musketeers. Then one day Natt goes home and finds his family huddled around the radio. The Russians are taking over. The churches and synagogues will close, Hebrew school will be held in secret, and there are tanks and soldiers in the street. But it's exciting, too. Natt wants to become a Young Pioneer, to show outstanding revolutionary spirit and make their new leader, Comrade Stalin, proud. But life under the Russians is hard. The soldiers are poor. They eat up all the food and they even take over Natt's house. Then Natt's father is arrested, and even Natt is detained and questioned. He feels like a nomad, sleeping at other people's houses while his mother works to free his father. As the adults try to protect him from the reality of their situation, and local authorities begin to round up deportees bound for Siberia, Natt is filled with a sense of guilt and grief. Why wasn't he brave enough to look up at the prison window when his mother took him to see his father for what might be the last time? Or can just getting through war be a heroic act in itself?"--Provided by the publisher.
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2004, Pre-adolescent, Orchard Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
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2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc Call No: REALISTIC F WIL Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart - his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.
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2011., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: FIC BAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.