Maria and her friend Nathan flee their Nazi-occupied Ukrainian town, hoping to earn wages and avoid starvation as foreign workers in Austria, but they are quickly separated and Maria waits out the war as a farm laborer.
year: 2020
call number/section: 1000
subjects: forced labor, juvenile fiction, farm life, ukrainians, austria, survival, world war, 1939-1945, war stories, fiction, war, survival skills, austria, history, 1938-1945, juvenile fiction, fiction, war fiction, historical fiction