Twelve-year-old Ivan has escaped from the siege of Leningrad, but when the town he has taken refuge in is occupied by Hitler’s troops, he sees his chance to help the partisans he has met–and to rescue to German shepherd puppies, Zasha and Thor, from the cruel Commander Recht.
- ISBN: 9780545452182
- Author: Barrow, Randi
- Published: 2013 , Scholastic Press
- Themes: Dogs, German Occupation, Nazis, Soviet Union, World War II
- Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia
- No. of pages: 343