Valchen

Croud Crimean summer. Ahead of the thirteen -year -old Vali holidays: swimming, reading, talking with her best friend. And then - the seventh grade and four years of excellent study for the dream of entering a medical one. And then - a whole life.
But on June 22, 1941, the war broke out, and every day brought change. Young men disappeared from the streets. Already for hours you need to stand for the simplest products, and then get them on cards at all. The invaders burst into the houses, and previously unthinkable orders and threats appeared on poles and walls.
A few months will pass and the girl will be sent along with hundreds of others to Germany, where they will hung a sign "OST", like a stigma: "Ostarbaiter" is not a person, but a cheap labor. Heavy labor, injustice, deprivation - and growing up, acquaintance with amazing people who call it German: Valchen. The first love. And again - a whole life.
"Valchen" - the new long -awaited novel by Olga Gromova, the author of one of the main children"s books of the 21st century - a "sugar child", who has already stood eight publications in Russia and translated a dozen languages ​​from French to Thai. Through the story of the life of Valchen and her older friend Natasha, through the smallest historical details and countless human destinies, a picture of the era is created. As in a "sugar child", at the heart of "Valchen" are the genuine fate of many people. In this book, too, there is no black and white, there are no unambiguous assessments - but there is an exciting plot, and many questions that the heroes are looking for answers. And an invitation to dialogue - with friends, at school, in the library, to the dialogue with history.
For senior school age