Search

In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.

From the book by Patricia Polacco. Famous for her beautifully painted Ukrainian eggs, old Babushka is preparing her eggs for the Easter Festival when she takes in an injured goose whom she names Rechenka.

A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.

Out of Russia's northern forests, once every generation or so, an evil wolf named Blood Prince walks, causing two young children to seek the witch Baba Yaga and ask her help in saving their village.

The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother.

Describes many things that originally came from Russia, including inventions, sports and games, food, fashion, musical instruments, animals, arts and crafts, and words.

A gentle, nearsighted peasant girl rescues the legendary Baba Babochka and is rewarded with a magic babushka that enables her to create beautiful "pysanky," or decorated eggs.

An illustrated introduction to Russia, describing the country's geography, people, wildlife, culture, and landmarks, and examining what daily life is like for students and Russian citizens.

In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Discusses the diverse ethnicity of Russian-Americans, their immigration, Jewish community, social, cultural and political customs, employment, experiences with discrimination, and integration into American society.

A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son.

In mid-nineteenth century Russia, Mendel Cholinsky, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy tries to escape to America to avoid being taken into the Czar's army for twenty-five years of military service.

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.

As world war and the looming Russian Revolution threaten all they hold dear, Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, and her family are being held in captivity, where she falls in love with one of their guards, a young man who has espoused the ideals of Lenin.