INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Whelan, Gloria

The Impossible Journey

(2) 4-6 When thirteen-year-old Marya's parents, deposed aristocrats, are taken by the Soviet secret police, she determines to reunite the family. Her journey with her younger brother, Georgi, is a bold adventure in exotic territory. The desperate plight of Russians under Stalin is only too real. Marya and Georgi, with their perseverance and unfailing love for their parents, win our sympathy, entreating us to see them safely to the end.

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