Boris
By: by Jaap ter Haar ; translated from the Dutch by Martha Mearns ; illustrated by Rien Poortvliet.
Contributors: Mearns, Martha.; Poortvliet, Rien, ill.
Publisher: Inheritance Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pella, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780921100720
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Soviet Union -- Fiction; War -- Fiction; Hunger -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Juvenile fiction; Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- History -- Siege, 1941-1944 -- Fiction; Russia -- History -- 1917- -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Work titles: Boris.
Description: During the German siege of Leningrad in 1942-43, twelve-year-old Boris meets fear and starvation with courage and determination as he gets a close look at both the horror of war and the humanity of the enemy.