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Words on fire  Cover Image Book Book

Words on fire / Jennifer A. Nielsen.

Summary:

In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who to trust, but risking her life and freedom for her country.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338606065
  • ISBN: 9781338275780
  • ISBN: 9781338275476
  • ISBN: 133827547X
  • Physical Description: 322 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Scholastic Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.6 11 11 503776
Subject: Smuggling > Lithuania > Juvenile fiction.
Books and reading > Juvenile fiction.
Government, Resistance to > Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories.
Lithuania > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.
Lithuania > History > Underground movements > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Bangor.

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Bangor Public Library J NIE (Text) 75011000352481 Juvenile Fiction Available -

Summary: In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who to trust, but risking her life and freedom for her country.

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