The Blackbird Girls

Grades 4 - 7

This beautiful haunting novel follows Valentina and Oksana in 1986 as they wake up to an exploding reactor in Chernobyl, where their fathers work. Soon, Valentina and Oksana, who have always been enemies go to stay with Valentina’s estranged grandmother. Oksana must come to terms with all the lies her parents told her, while Valentina must keep her grandmother’s secret.