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1) Martha
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The author relates how he and his Moscow family rescued Martha, a crow with a broken wing, and how she joined their household.
2) Egg & spoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An improverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga.
Author
Publisher
Amaryllis Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Russia, 1905: Thirteen-year-old Ruth dreams of growing up to marry the boy next door and living peacefully ever after. But when she and her father are forced to flee to America after the Bloody Sunday Massacre, Ruth and the other female members of the family are left behind amid the violence and chaos of revolutionary Russia. Overcoming violence and hunger with a strength she never knew she possessed, Ruth resolves to do what it takes to keep her...
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the siblings since. Has the ruthless Irina Spasky finally tracked them down? Or worse-- the Madrigals?
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a little girl asks her Baba to tell her a story about a princess and a monster what she hears is so much more--the true tale of her grandmother's escape from a prisoner of war camp in Siberia to freedom, all with the help of a secret message hidden in a nesting doll. The perfect happily ever after!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
The Cold War: Books for Kids
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
The Cold War: Books for Kids
Description
"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....
11) We are wolves
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive.--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hidden in Saint Petersburg's famed Mariinsky Theater are the world's tiniest ballet fans: the Mariinsky mice, including Esmeralda, a rising dancer in the Russian Mouse Ballet Company. Despite being unable to control her tail, Esmeralda has just been assigned the lead role of Clara in a ballet debuting at Christmas: The Nutcracker. But when she learns that the new ballet features mice as villains, her excitement turns to horror: the mice of Saint Petersburg...
Author
Publisher
Skyhook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A talented musician from Novgorod plays so well that the Sea King wants him to marry one of his daughters.
A talented musician named Sadko from the city of Novgorod plays his gusli instrument so well that many rich people would request that he play at feasts. Most often he was told to eat his fill at the banquets and was given a few coins as well. Often his friends would ask him how he could live on so little and he would reply, "It's not so bad...
14) Nevertell
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
After escaping a Soviet prison camp, Lina is pursued by a powerful witch and her shadow wolves in a story that imbues frozen wilderness with fairy-tale magic. All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows to reach Moscow and find her long-lost grandmother, whom...
15) Lara's gift
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has special bond with the dogs.
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