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'Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...
'Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!'
'So I run. I run like a rabbit.
'It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers.
'And then everything is gone.
'The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains.
'But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive.
'One small boy without a family cannot survive.
'One small boy without his home cannot survive.
'What that small boy needs is an army.' (Publication summary)
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Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards
2022
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.'
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Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards
2022
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— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.'
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books
- 2022 winner HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Children and Young Adult
- 2022 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Younger Readers — Shadowers' Choice Award
- 2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's History Prize New South Wales History Prize — Young People's History Prize
- 2022 winner Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Children's Book of the Year