The wild children
by Felice Holman · 1983

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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.
FictionHistoryJuvenile fictionOrphansSurvivalChildren's stories, AmericanChildren's fictionSoviet union, fictionGirls, fiction