Burying the Sun
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Too young for the army, one boy takes saving the city into his own hands. The Russian city of Leningrad is darkening with winter and war, and Georgi's family prepares for the worst. His sister, Marya, packs up the great artwork at the Hermitage museum for safekeeping, and their mother tends to the wounded soldiers. But at fourteen years old, Georgi is too young to join the army, and he wonders how he can possibly help his friends and family. As the city slowly starves from lack of food and hope, Georgi knows he can help his people survive, but he must face dangers as real as the battles on the front lines.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan, the third title in the series that began with Angel on the Square, 14-year-old Georgi (the younger brother of Marya who narrated The Impossible Journey) and his family face a German invasion in the midst of WWII. Starvation, icy temperatures and death plague Leningrad, as the Russians struggle to survive. .