num_pages: 475
description: A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia.Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsars army the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying slowly in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village a train carrying untold wealth a cornucopia of food and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg  a family that includes Ekaterina a girl of Elenas age. When the two girls lives collide an adventure is set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity a monk locked in a tower a prince traveling incognito and  in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured  Baba Yaga witch of Russian folklore in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs
language: English
title: Egg & Spoon
publisher: Candlewick Press