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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Esther's Polish home seemed to be perfect in 1941 until one morning when Russian soldiers placed their family under arrest for being "capitalists, and therefore enemies of the people". In a cattle car the family was taken across Russia to Siberia, a place reserved for criminals & political enemies.
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Poland, 1940. The Russian army invades the beautiful city streets of Vilna. Soldiers storm ten-year-old Esther Rudomin's house and arrest her entire family. The Rudomins, the soldiers say, are "capitalists-enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends, the Rudomins are herded onto crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Esther and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working...
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