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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, the author recreates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the fictional eyes of the Romanovs' young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs' brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
This novel is a fictionalized account of the mysterious life and death of the notorious Rasputin, as told by his daughter, Maria. Rasputin was a Russian mystic and adviser to the Romanovs, the Russian imperial family. In this story, Maria is interrogated by the provisional government on the details of her father's death, Maria vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where her father's powerful influence over the throne is unsettling to all...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When she was just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, her hearing, and most of her senses of smell and taste. But then a progressive doctor, who had just opened the country's first school for the blind in Boston, took her in. Laura learned to communicate, read, and write--and eventually even to teach.