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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"--
Author
Series
History) volume 20
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the world at the beginning of the 20th century, from the origins of cinema and flight, to the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tawcester Towers, the family seat of the Lyminster family, has suffered an unwelcome injection of distant cousins, so distant that they aren't even British! Count Igor and Count Lyudmilla Bashusky had to flee Russia after the Revolution and have spent the intervening years building up debts in the hotels of Europe's capitals and sponging off ever more exasperated (and distant) relatives. The Bashusky's arrival at Tawcester Towers causes a stir, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
A brief, simple, and straightforward account of the Russian revolution in 1917 and the events that led up to it. Alan Moorehead, a native of Australia, was the first recipient of the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, which was presented to him in 1956 by Sir Winston Churchill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the Russian Revolution turns her world upside down, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family. Anna is overwhelmed by her new duties, and her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. To make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her, too. Anna finds it...
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