Boy on the Bridge (19 page)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Standiford, Natalie.

The boy on the bridge / Natalie Standiford. —1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia — a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.

ISBN 978-0-545-33481-5 (hardcover)

1. American students — Soviet Union — Juvenile fiction. 2. Saint Petersburg (Russia) — Social life and customs — Juvenile fiction. 3. Soviet Union — Intellectual life — 1970-1991 — Juvenile fiction. 4. Soviet Union — Social life and customs — Juvenile fiction. [1. Foreign study — Fiction. 2. Dissenters — Fiction. 3. Saint Petersburg (Russia) — Social life and customs — Fiction. 4. Saint Petersburg (Russia) — History — 20th century — Fiction. 5. Soviet Union — History — 1953-1985 — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S78627Boy 2013

813.54 — dc23

2012033037

First edition, August 2013

Cover art by Pierre Doucin

Cover design by Nina Goffi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-53907-4

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