| Description |
355 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
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Ages 12-18. |
| Summary |
Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwów from Germany, the city remains a battleground between resistance fighters and insurgent armies, its loyalties torn between Poland and Ukraine. Seventeen-year-old Tolya Korolenko is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and he joined the Soviet Red Army to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his unit's political officer in the street, he's rescued by a squad of Ukrainian freedom fighters. They might have saved him, but Tolya doesn't trust them. He especially doesn't trust Solovey, the squad's war-scarred young leader, who has plenty of secrets of his own. Then a betrayal sends them both on the run. And in a city where loyalty comes second to self-preservation, a traitor can be an enemy or a savior—or sometimes both. |
| Audience |
Ages 12-18. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Fiction.
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Loyalty -- Fiction.
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Poland -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine -- Fiction.
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Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Poland -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Young adult fiction.
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Teen fiction.
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| Cover Title |
Traitor : a novel |
| ISBN |
9780374313524 (hardcover) |
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0374313520 (hardcover) |
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