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The blackbird girls / by Anne Blankman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2020Description: 340 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781984837356
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.B61333 Bl 2020
Online resources: Awards:
  • Sydney Taylor Award, 2021
Summary: Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.
Item type: MAIN COLLECTION
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Booklist, 2/15/2020

Horn Book Guide, 4/2020

Kirkus Reviews Starred, 12/15/2019

Publishers Weekly, 1/13/2020

School Library Connection Star, 3/2020

School Library Journal Starred, 3/2020

Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.

4.8.

4-7.

560 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader AR-ATOS MG 4.8 12.0 509231.

Sydney Taylor Award, 2021

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