R Is for Rebel

Written by J. Anderson Coats

A spirited girl defies a conquering empire's reform school, sparking rebellion.

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272 pages· 58,626 words· Est. 6.5 hour read· 900L

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Malley, a defiant young girl, is captured by a conquering empire and sent to a reform school. With her parents imprisoned for resisting, Malley faces reeducation and domestic servitude. But she refuses to be broken. Rallying her fellow students, she plans a rebellion against their oppressors. Can the government truly tame these spirited girls, or will their resistance ignite a revolution?

From the publisher

Princess Academy meets Megan Whalen Turner in this stunning novel about a girl who won’t let anything tame her spirit—not 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 school—but they’ll 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. That’s the government’s plan, anyway.

But Malley will not go down without a fight. She’s 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…

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