TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blankman,Anne
TI  - The blackbird girls
SN  - 9781984837370
U1  - [Fic] 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Puffin Books
KW  - Girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl�, Ukraine, 1986
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Hate
KW  - Toleration
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; School Library Journal starred, March 2020; Library Media Connection starred, March 2020; Publishers Weekly, January 2020; Kirkus Starred, December 2019; Booklist, February 2020; Horn Book, March 2020; 5.7; 5-8; Follett School Solutions; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 4.8; 12.0; 509231; BR
N2  - "On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?"--Amazon.com
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