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Meredith and Nina are as different as sisters can be. When their father falls ill, they find themselves together, standing with their cold, disapproving mother, Anya. As children their only connection was the Russian fairy tale Anya often told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise: the fairy tale will be told one last time--and all the way to the end.
2) Granny Dan
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Language
English
Description
A Russian ballerina's memoir of life as the mistress of the Tsar's physician. A bout of influenza brings them together, there are balls at the royal palace, an abortion, then the revolution separates them and she flees to America.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Based on a memory from the author's childhood.
6) Be prepared
Author
Publisher
First Second
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.
7) Anya's ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
Author
Series
Sunny Sweet volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Description
Follows eleven-year-old Masha and her "evil genius" little sister, Sunny, through one very adventurous day, as Masha faces scary situations, meets new people, and gains new insight into life with her hardworking, single mother.
Author
Series
Bolshoi saga volume 1
Publisher
Soho Teen
Language
English
Description
After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust.
10) Audacity
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
11) Harvest of truth
Author
Series
Sowers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Language
English
12) North of Boston
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
When the fishing boat she is on is rammed by a freighter, Pirio Kasparov finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic, surviving nearly four hours in the water before being rescued by the Coast Guard. But the boat's owner and her professional fisherman friend, Ned, is not so lucky. Pirio can't shake the suspicion that the boat's sinking was no accident. And with the help of a curious journalist, she begins unraveling a lethal plot.
14) Molly's pilgrim
Author
Series
Publisher
Lothrop Lee & Shepard Books
Edition
Rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Language
English
Description
After a pogrom forces Batya's Russian Jewish family to leave their home and make the journey to America, Batya hopes her new life will offer her a chance to become a woodcarver like her beloved father. But while many things in America are different from the world of her shtetl, one thing seems to be the same: only boys can be woodcarvers. Still, Batya is determined to learn. With the same perseverance that helped her family survive and start over...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
" Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant household, the fall of communism and the rise of globalization are artfully reflected in the experience of a single family. Ironies, subtle and glaring, are revealed: the Nasmertovs left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a huge sense of finality,...
19) Nathan's song
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
20) The dream jar
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Language
English
Description
After emigrating to America, each member of a Russian family works hard to contribute to the family's dream of someday owning and running a store.
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