R Is for Rebel (English Edition)

An empowering and timely story about resistance. Booklist Princess Academy meets Megan Whalen Turner in this stunning novel about a girl who wont let anything tame her spiritnot the government that conquered her people, and definitely not reform school! Malley has led the constables on a merry chase across her once-peaceful country. With her parents in prison for their part in a failed resistance movement, the government wants to send her to a national schoolbut theyll have to capture her first. And capture her they do. Malley is carted off to be reformed as a proper subject of the conquering empire, reeducated, and made suitable for domestic service. Thats the governments plan, anyway. But Malley will not go down without a fight. Shes determined to rally her fellow students to form a rebellion of their own. The government can lock these girls up in reform school. Whether it can break them is another matter entirely