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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2012
"We've all lost our mothers, stupid," young Mishka Ivan Andreovich is informed by rat-faced Viktor, one of a group of homeless children subsisting in Moscow's train station. Ivan's grandmother, Babushka Ina, died; his mother has disappeared; and now he has no family. The Soviet Union has fallen, and with it went the safety net that might have saved the desperately poor. And so Ivan joins the thousands of abandoned children living on the streets of Moscow in the mid-1990s. When Ivan is ado...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012 | Intermediate Fiction
Ivan is one of the thousands of abandoned children living on the streets of Moscow in the mid-1990s when he is adopted by...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on November 1, 2012
A fascinating, gripping, and moving novel—of a feral child living in just-post Soviet Russia—based on a true story. Ivan’s efforts to create a supportive canine family are poignant. His relationship with the stray dogs is all the more touching because he lacks any close ties ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
