Burying the Sun

Gloria Whelan

first published 2004 HarperTrophy, 2007 paperback 224 pages

Too young for the army, one boy takes saving the city into his own hands. The Russian city of Leningrad is darkening with winter and war, and Georgi's family prepares for the worst. His sister, Marya, packs up the great artwork at the Hermitage museum for safekeeping, and their mother tends to the wounded soldiers. But at fourteen years old, Georgi is too young to join the army, and he wonders how he can possibly hel...

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Burying the Sun ebook · 2008 · HarperCollins · 9780061780486
Burying the Sun paperback · 2007 · HarperTrophy · 224 pages · 9780060541149
Burying the sun edition · 2004 · HarperCollins · 205 pages

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