cover image Burying the Sun

Burying the Sun

Gloria Whelan. HarperCollins Publishers, $15.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-054112-5

In Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan, the third title in the series that began with Angel on the Square, 14-year-old Georgi (the younger brother of Marya who narrated The Impossible Journey) and his family face a German invasion in the midst of WWII. Starvation, icy temperatures and death plague Leningrad, as the Russians struggle to survive. .