Imagine this terrible situation. You're twelve years old. One day, you wake up to discover your parents and your younger sister have disappeared. The only reason you are still alive is because the soldiers who took your family didn't know that your bedroom was behind a wall in your home. This is the plight of twelve-year-old Alex, of Felice Holman's book The Wild Children, set during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Alex has nowhere to go. His teacher is afraid to help him. His u
ncle is gone, too. So Alex becomes one of the wild children, orphaned boys who roam the streets and survive by stealing and committing other petty crimes. Alex stays in a cellar with a band of homeless boys, including Misha, Peter, Boris and Grigoriy. He needs stay with these other orphaned children for protection as well as food.
The Wild Children does not have a entirely happy ending. All of the boys do not find homes, and Russia is still under the hand of a cruel leader. Howe
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