Valentina's father works at a nuclear power plant called Chernobyl, and when the infamous 1986 disaster happens, she must evacuate her city and start a new life with her grandmother and a classmate who was never nice to her back home in Pripyat. The nuclear disaster and its aftermath makes for a fascinating start to the story, but this is also a story of reuniting with family, finding friendship, oppressive governments, anti-semitism, and overcoming great obstacles. I recommend this book to readers from middle school on up--as an adult who was a child in 1986 I thought there was a lot to learn about this incident and about what life was like in the Soviet Union at the time.
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