Author | Jennifer Donnelly |
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Language | English |
Genre | Young Adult Historical Fiction |
Publisher | Delacorte Press (US) Bloomsbury (UK) |
Published in English | October 2010 |
Pages | 472 |
ISBN | 0-385-73763-7 |
Revolution is a young adult historical fiction novel by Jennifer Donnelly about a girl named Andi Alpers who is struggling with drugs, thoughts of suicide, and the way her family has fallen apart after the death of her ten-year-old brother. When her father takes her with him to Paris on a business trip to ensure she works on her school thesis, Andi discovers a journal written by a girl her age, Alexandrine Paradis, two centuries earlier which has its own tragedies inside. Revolution was an Amazon Best Book of the Year (2010) and honored by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal; the audiobook version received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor.