The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott.She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team.So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled.And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement ...Well, it's all downhill from there.
Soon Eva has been transplanted from her comfortable Chicago suburb to a land that doesn't even have meat in its stores, let alone Peter Frampton records.And...Read more
The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott.She has a terrific best friend, she's dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team.So when her widowed dad says it's time for them to move, she's not exactly thrilled.And when he tells her that he intends to move to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement ...Well, it's all downhill from there.
Soon Eva has been transplanted from her comfortable Chicago suburb to a land that doesn't even have meat in its stores, let alone Peter Frampton records.And everywhere she goes, the government is watching.But Eva begins to warm to her new life.Sometime between eating lard on bread and dodging the militia, she makes a handsome new friend, Tomek.And soon she is wondering if maybe she's found home in the most unlikely of places.
Soon Eva has been transplanted from her comfortable Chicago suburb to a land that doesn't even have meat in its stores, let alone Peter Frampton records.And everywhere she goes, the government is watching.But Eva begins to warm to her new life.Sometime between eating lard on bread and dodging the militia, she makes a handsome new friend, Tomek.And soon she is wondering if maybe she's found home in the most unlikely of places.
- ISBN13 9780152054625
- Publish Date 1 March 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 239
- Language English