Title: The midnight diary of Zoya Blume
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Fear in fiction, Coming of age in fiction, Diaries, Russian Americans, Russian Americans in fiction, Diaries in fiction, Coming of age, Adoption, Mothers and daughters in fiction, Adoption in fiction, Mothers and daughters, Intercountry adoption, Fear, Intercountry adoption in fiction, Children's fiction, Fear, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction