Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
year: 2022
call number/section: 1000
subjects: farmers, ukraine, juvenile fiction, famines, history, survival, friendship, fiction, survival skills, ukraine, history, famine, 1932-1933, juvenile fiction, politics and government, 1917-1945, fiction, historical fiction