Title:
Arcady's goal
Author:
Yelchin, Eugene.
Format:
Books
ISBN:
9780805098440
Physical Description:
234 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Abstract:
When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person, and himself.
Subject:
| Soccer stories. |
| Communism -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Foster home care -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Soccer -- Fiction. |
| Communism -- Fiction. |
| Foster home care -- Fiction. |
| Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953 -- Fiction. |
