Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy
Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust....
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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mother's disappearance, and a boy she cannot bring herself to trust. Full description
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781616952631 (1616952636)
Publish date: August 13th 2013
Publisher: Soho Teen
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I won this book on Goodreads. I was excited about the idea of A Russian themed book for young people. I must say though the Russian words for items and such sometimes lost me a bit. I feel like the author rushed the story and did not let me sink deep enough into the characters that she had introduce...
ok, so there's a lot going on in this book: a bit of ballet, lots of spy intrigue, cold war and russian history/germ warfare conspiracy, lots of musical references, russian mobsters, visions of the past and future, first love, missing and dead people, phew! And for the most part it worked for me. Ma...
ok, so there's a lot going on in this book: a bit of ballet, lots of spy intrigue, cold war and russian history/germ warfare conspiracy, lots of musical references, russian mobsters, visions of the past and future, first love, missing and dead people, phew! And for the most part it worked for me. Ma...
Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy has many great elements. Intrigue, paranoia, deception and a little romance for balance. I'm not, however, sure that it will find its target audience in the young adult world.The story takes place in the 1980's, during the Cold War. I am barely old enough to remembe...
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