Notes
In Yuri's country, people vanish. An no-one ever comes back. Now Yuri is also on a road to despair - a road built on the bones of those who dared to oppose...
Award: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Author has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, the Guardian Children's Literature Award, and a Smarties Prize. She has twice been voted Children's Writer of the Year at the British Book Awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2001 to 2003.Additional Notes
Russian Revolution, Soviet Union, freedom of speech
