Found: Science fiction for teens a monkey human hybrid starts a revolt

The story is told in a weird flashback kind of format. A girl has written an essay about the revolutionary and we learn more about the revolt by the girl being asked questions about her essay. By the end of the story you find out the girl is actually the reincarnation of the revolutionary.

I think you may be looking for Lucy, by Lauren Gonzales: https://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Laurence-Gonzales/dp/0307473902

Touchstones Lucy by Laurence Gonzales.

>2 flattestland: Thanks!