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The blackbird girls

Blankman, Anne2021
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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?
Main title:
The blackbird girls / by Anne Blankman.
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Puffin Books, 2021.©2020.
Collation:
xxv, 340 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in the United States of America by Viking, 2020.Includes bibliographical references.
Audience:
Interest age level: Ages 9 and up.
ISBN:
9781984837370
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
714314
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the DockJunior Middle FictionJ MIDDLE BLANAvailable
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