The wild children

About this book

Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life.

Subjects

• children's fiction
• children's stories, american
• fiction
• girls, fiction
• history
• juvenile fiction
• orphans
• soviet union, fiction
• survival