Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old …\n\n\nWood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, ‘Run, Sasha! Run!’\nSo I run. I run like a rabbit.\nIt’s spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers.\nAnd then everything is gone.\nThe flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains.\nBut one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive.\nOne small boy without a family cannot survive.\nOne small boy without his home cannot survive.\nWhat that small boy needs is an army.\nFrom the award-winning author ofWe Are Wolvescomes the story of a young boy who becomes a soldier at six, fighting in the only way he can — with love. But is love ever enough when the world is at war?AWARDS\nHonour Book – CBCA 2022 (Younger Reader’s Book of the Year)\nWinner – The Indie Book Awards 2022 (Children’s)\nWinner – ABA Bookseller’s Choice 2022 Book of the Year Awards (Children’s)\nWinner – ARA Historical Novel Award 2022 (Children and Young Adult)\nShortlisted – ABIAs 2022 (Book of the Year for Younger Children)\nA NEW CHILDREN’S CLASSIC\n\nPowerful new stand-alone historical fiction from the award-winning author ofWe Are Wolves\nA heart-breaking and uplifting must-read\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nISBN: 9780733341465\n\n\n\n\n\nAGES: 10+\n\n\n\n