Scarecrow

Twelve-year-old Lena comes to live with her eccentric grandfather in a small Russian town and finds herself mocked and persecuted by a gang of her classmates at her new school.

Related: Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Russia

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    [0]=>
    string(13) "9780397323173"
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  ["Author"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(21) "Zheleznikov, Vladimir"
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  ["Translator"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(15) "Bouis, Antonina"
  }
  ["Subject/Theme"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(5) "Death"
    [1]=>
    string(11) "Family life"
  }
  ["pubdate"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(4) "1990"
  }
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