Red stars - Davide Morosinotto

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• This middle grade mystery adventure, told in a unique format including diary entries, maps and photos, takes readers along on the harrowing journeys of two twelve-year-old siblings, separated just before the Nazi siege of their city and each desperate to reunite with one another.
• Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler's Germany declares war on the Soviet Union.
• With little notice, the city's children are evacuated on trains that are meant to take them to safety.
• Shockingly, Viktor and Nadya are separated, and disaster befalls them both.
• As the terrible conflict rages, each embarks on a desperate race across snow and ice, struggling through the destruction in an effort to be reunited.
• Their chances are slim, but they never lose hope.
• In an original format--using the kids' diary entries, with historical photos, maps, and drawings throughout, this fictionalized account of the Nazi siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, this heart-stopping story of danger, courage and bravery emphasizes the power of truth and what it means to be a hero.