![]() ![]() When his mother is falsely arrested for stealing potatoes, Natt is truly on his own and must learn how to live the uncertain life of an exile. So Natt decides to write in code, and his letters are a lifeline, even though he never knows whether Max will receive them.Įvery day becomes a question of survival, and where they might be shunted to next. He needs to write to his best friend, Max, but he knows the Soviet police reads everyone's mail. And he is about to discover that life can indeed get worse than the horrific two months he and his mother have spent being transported on a bug-infested livestock train. Torn from his home in Eastern Europe, with his father imprisoned in a Siberian gulag, twelve-year-old Natt finds himself stranded with other deportees in a schoolyard in Novosibirsk. In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is exiled to Siberia during World War II. ![]()
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