Title: The wild children
First published: 1983
Description: Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Survival, Children's stories, American, Children's fiction, Soviet union, fiction, Girls, fiction
Places: Soviet Union
Time periods: Revolution, 1917-1921