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Broken Song
by Kathryn Lasky
Ages: 9+
Published: 2005
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0-670-05931-5
Keywords: Pogroms, Tsarist Russia
In 1897, fifteen-year-old, musically talented Reuven escapes from Tsarist Russia with his baby sister.