num_pages: 211
description: Sixteen-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. Shes a pilot whos always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad Valyas been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during the siege Valya is left with one burning desire: to join up with her older sister a member of the famous Night Witchesa regiment of female pilots who fly light plains through curtains of fire to bomb crucial targets.Using all her wits Valya manages to get past the German blockade and find the Night Witches hidden base. Thats when the real danger starts. The pilots have been assigned a critical mission one with the power to inflict serious damage on the Nazis. Valya will give anything to fight for her country but when the person she loves most goes missing she must make a choice between duty and the deepest desires of her heart.
language: English
title: Night Witches
publisher: Scholastic Press