Printz Honor winner Donnelly combines compelling historical fiction with a frank contemporary story. Soon, Alex's life and struggles become as real and as painful for Andi as her own troubled life. But when she finds the 200-year-old diary of another teen, Alexandrine Paradis, she is plunged into the chaos of the French Revolution. She resists accompanying her work-obsessed father to Paris, especially after he places her mentally fragile mother in a hospital, but once there works in earnest on her senior thesis about an 18th-century French musician. Despite her brilliance, she has not been able to focus on anything except music since the death of her younger brother, which pushed the difficulties in her family to the breaking point.

'Andi Alpers, a 17-year-old music lover, is about to be expelled from her elite private school.

WINNER - 2011 Young Adult Book of the Year - American Booksellers AssociationĪn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults The novel is rich with detail, and both the Brooklyn and Paris settings provide important grounding for the haunting and beautifully told story.'- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review ★ ' Brilliantly realized, complete, and complex. will find this brilliantly crafted work utterly absorbing.'- The Bulletin, Starred Review ★ ' Every detail is meticulously inscribed into a multi-layered narrative that is as wise, honest, and moving as it is cunningly worked. ★ ' A sumptuous feast of a novel, rich in mood, character, and emotion.'- SLJ, Starred Review Revolution spans centuries and vividly depicts the eternal struggles of the human heart.Īn ABA Indies Choice Young Adult Book of the YearĪn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young AdultsĪ School Library Journal Best Book of the YearĪ Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book Revolution artfully weaves two girls' stories into one unforgettable account of life, loss, and enduring love. It's the same fire that consumes Andi, and Andi finds comfort in it-until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs, words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes terrifyingly present. Alexandrine, the owner of the journal, lived during the French Revolution. And when she finds a centuries-old diary, the ghosts begin to walk off the page. And her father has determined that accompanying him to Paris for winter break is the solution for everything.īut Paris is a city of ghosts for Andi.

She's angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Description Readers of If I Stay and Elizabeth George will love Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, New York Times bestselling author of Stepsister, Poisoned, These Shallow Graves, and the award-winning novel A Northern Light.Īndi Alpers is on the edge.