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Territory: World • British & Translation: RHCB
Performance: Barbara Markowitz
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116 • MIDDLE-GRADE HARDCOVER
A terrible war—but one where
a boy could make a difference.
The Winter War
A Novel
WILLIAM DURBIN
WHEN THE SOVIET Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November
1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was
weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the
front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark
forest is terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have
4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000
tanks, while the Finns have 30. But a tank is no help in the snowy forest—a
boy on skis is. And the Russians don’t know winter the way the Finns do, or
what tough guerrilla warriors the Finns are.
Marko teams up with another messenger, Karl. Gradually Marko learns that
Karl’s whole family was killed by the Russians. And Karl has a secret—he’s
really Kaari, a girl who joined up to get revenge for her family’s deaths.
William Durbin lives on Lake Vermilion at the edge of the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. He taught English for
many years, and now writes full-time.