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What (short) young adult novel is this?
It's about a boy whose family is taken in the night by the Russian police near the end of Stalin's rule. His teacher helps him escape and he eventually gets tangled with a band of orphan children. Near the end of the novel, he finds a relative (uncle I think) who helps them escape to Poland (I think). One of the main characters stays behind because he killed his former orphanage director (after killing one of the orphans, Mishka) and decides to help others escape Russia as well.
Thank you!
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- charmingLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
"The Wild Children" by Felice Holman
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-Children-Felice-Hol...
"One day young Alex wakes up and finds his house in shambles, his parents and younger sister Nadya missing. He was spared because the Bolsheviks didn't know that his room was behind the wall. Alex goes first to his favourite teacher Katriana, but for safety reasons he can't stay with her for long, and goes to find his uncle Dmitriy, who he discovers has also been taken away."
"...they are caught by the authorities in the Caucauses and shipped off to an orphanage; Peter tells Alex they have been in them before but escaped. Escape becomes even more of a priority this time around after the mean director does something very horrible to them and Peter takes revenge for it."