The Impossible Journey

Author(s): Gloria Whelan

Location(s): Siberia

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult

Era(s): 1934

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to Angel on the Square.

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