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In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
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Behind the walls of the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg live Esmeralda and her family of mice, the tiniest dancers in the world. Esmeralda has been accepted into the Russian Mouse Ballet Company, and her first project will be "The Nutcracker," debuting at Christmastime. However, when Esmeralda learns that mice are villains in "The Nutcracker," she has second thoughts. Only the custodian's daughter, Irina, can help Esmeralda and her family.
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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....