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A SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK
Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history.
On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work—Chernobyl—has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?
Told in alternating perspectives among three girls—Valentina and Oksana in 1986 and Rifka in 1941—this story shows that hatred, intolerance, and oppression are no match for the power of true friendship.

- Anne Blankman - Author
- Kathleen Gati - Narrator
- Natasha Soudek - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593155653
- File size: 291156 KB
- Release date: March 10, 2020
- Duration: 10:06:34
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593155653
- File size: 291188 KB
- Release date: March 10, 2020
- Duration: 10:12:34
- Number of parts: 9

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Lexile® Measure:560
Text Difficulty:2-3