Title: The boy on the bridge
Description: It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.

It is 1982, and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha, she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Dissenters, Intellectual life, Juvenile fiction, American students, Fiction, Foreign study, History, Children's fiction, Soviet union, history, fiction, Students, fiction, Education, fiction
Places: Saint Petersburg (Russia), Soviet Union
Time periods: 1970-1991, 20th century, 1953-1985