Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2016 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
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Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside, and there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying a cornucopia of food, untold wealth, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg—a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and—in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured—Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.
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2015 · Teen · Finalist
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2015 · Teen · Winner
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
2015 · Fiction & Poetry · Honor Book
Junior Library Guild
2015 · Selection
Junior Library Guild
2014 · Selection
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