The midnight diary of Zoya Blume
By: Laura Shaine Cunningham.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Laura Geringer Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Fear -- Fiction; Coming of age -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Intercountry adoption -- Fiction; Adoption -- Fiction; Russian Americans -- Fiction; Diaries -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: While her adoptive American mother is away, twelve-year-old Zoya confides in her diary her revived fears about the Buka, an old woman who waits in the shadows to snatch children, and confronts some truths about her early childhood in her native Russia.
Notes: Ages 8 up.