This Rebel Heart

ISBN-10: 0593381270
ISBN-13: 9780593381274
Author: Locke, Katherine
Interest Level: 7-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: November 2023

Copyright: 2022

Page Count: 448

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Interest Level

Grades 7-12

Reading Level

Lexile: HL750L

BISAC Subjects

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Religious / Jewish *

YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBT *

Description
The Fountains of Silence meets Spinning Silver in this rollicking tale set amid the 1956 Hungarian revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest from Sydney Taylor Honor winner Katherine Locke. In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget. Now Csilla keeps her head down, planning her escape from this country that has never loved her the way she loves it. But her carefully laid plans fall to pieces when her parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated. As the protests in other countries spur talk of a larger revolution in Hungary, Csilla must decide if she believes in the promise and magic of her deeply flawed country enough to risk her life to help save it, or if she should let it burn to the ground. With queer representatio
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