Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog named Laika, who dreams of finding a home and is being studied in Nina’s father’s lab as part of the Soviet space program.

• ISBN: 9780374314583
• Author: Shepherd, Megan
• Published: 2022, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Themes: Aeronautics and space, Dogs, Laika, Space Race
• Descriptors: Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia
• No. of pages: 224