Revolution
Revolution
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Desc: BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. 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. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time and the past becomes suddenly terrifyingly present.