Awards and Honors<i>SLJ</i> Best Books 2014, Young Adult; Amazon.com Top 20 Editors’ picks 2014, Teen & Young Adult; <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Teen Books of 2014; YALSA’s 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults; <i>New York Times</i> Notable Children’s Books of 2014, Middle Grade; Horn Book Fanfare List: Best Books of 2014, Fiction
Elena Rudina lives in poverty in the Russian countryside. Then Ekaterina, a girl her age, arrives on a luxurious train. The girls soon meet the tsar, a prince, and Baba Yaga.
Your middle-school readers will thrill to new futures, fantasy realms, and alternate realities. Readers will look forward to discovering a new world monthly with the 14 books in this category.