β James Hadley Chase
π Fiction
π
2011
π English
β 113 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
A Boy Is Not a Bird
β Scribed by Edeet Ravel
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 256 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In 1941, life in Natt's small town of Zastavna is comfortable and familiar, even if the grownups are acting strange, and his parents treat him like a baby. Natt knows there's a war on, of course, but he's glad their family didn't emigrate to Canada when they had a chance. His mother didn't want to leave their home, and neither did he. He especially wouldn't want to leave his best friend, Max. Max is the ideas guy, and he hears what's going on in the world from his older sisters. Together the boys are two brave musketeers.
Then one day Natt goes home and finds his family huddled around the radio. The Russians are taking over. The churches and synagogues will close, Hebrew school will be held in secret, and there are tanks and soldiers in the street. But it's exciting, too. Natt wants to become a Young Pioneer, to show outstanding revolutionary spirit and make their new leader, Comrade Stalin, proud.
But life under the Russians is hard. The soldiers are poor. They eat...
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