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Words on fire / Jennifer A. Nielsen.

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen transports readers to a corner of history with this inspiring story of a girl who discovers the strength of her people united in resisting oppression.Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian Cossack soldiers, who insist that everyone must become Russian--they have banned Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language. But Audra knows her parents are involved in something secret and perilous. When Cossacks arrive abruptly at their door, Audra's parents insist that she flee, taking with her an important package and instructions for where to deliver it. But escape means abandoning her parents to a terrible fate. As Audra embarks on a journey to deliver the mysterious package, she faces unimaginable risks, and soon she becomes caughtup in a growing resistance movement. Can joining the underground network of book smugglers give Audra a chance to rescue her parents?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781338567519
  • ISBN: 1338567519
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 15 min., 05 sec.)) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York, NY] : Scholastic Audio, 2019.

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Kathleen McInerney.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed October 04, 2019).
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.
Smuggling > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Government, Resistance to > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers > Fiction.
Lithuania > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Lithuania > History > Underground movements > Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Books and reading.
Government, Resistance to.
Interpersonal relations.
Smuggling.
Underground movements, War.
Lithuania.
Genre: Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Children's audiobooks.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Audiobooks.
Children's audiobooks.

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