Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words lead him to a virtual death-sentence - sent on a nightmare journey up north to a camp amidst the frozen wastes. What, or who, can he possibly believe in now? Can he even survive? And is escape possible . . . ?
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Corgi Childrens
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2007
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Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the childrenâs book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Childrenâs Award, the Guardian Childrenâs Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Childrenâs Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne lives in the North-East. \n\nâShe is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major childrenâs literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Childrenâs Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at workâ Scotsman