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Torch

Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Ages: 14+

Published: 2022

Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner

ISBN: 978-1-72841-568-0

Keywords: communism, suicide, Czechoslovakia, defectors, LGBTQ, Asperberger's

After the Soviet invasion quashes the Prague Spring of 1968, three misfit teenagers find their increasingly constricted lives unbearable and daringly flee the repression.