revolutions

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.

"Lei is the Moonchosen, the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But confronting the cruel Demon King wasn't the end of her story--it was just the beginning. Now Lei and her warrior-love, Wren, must prepare for a revolution. Their journey is made even more treacherous by the heavy bounty on Lei's head, as well as insidious doubts and trauma that threaten to tear Lei and Wren apart from within. Meanwhile, a vengeful plot to eliminate the rebels is gaining strength, powered by dark magic. Will Lei succeed in her quest to overthrow the Demon King and protect her love for Wren, or will she fall victim to the sinister magic that seeks to destroy her?"--Dust jacket flap.

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in a household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years of world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

The activities at High Pines Summer Camp for boys are generally hiking, swimming, canoeing, and arts and crafts. But this summer a revolution led by General Frank begins to change things, first to a benevolant leadership and then into a totalitarian dictatorship.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Walker is transported to a strange world called Lyrian, where he joins Rachel and a few rebels to piece together the Word that can destroy the malicious wizard emperor, Surroth.

In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.

Rejected all her life for being half-human, half-elf, Andra is a servant in Paerolia's Chief Judge's manor until she is thrust in to a secret rebellion that could make her the land's new leader.

Nomi Tessaro joins her sister, Serena, on the volcanic prison island of Mount Ruin for a fight to usher in a new age of freedom for all.

A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.