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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

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A Wall Street Journal 20 Best Children’s Books of the Past 20 Years Selection
A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist

“This ambitious and gripping work is narrative nonfiction at its best. . . . The book has all the intrigue of a spy thriller. . . . A must-have title with broad crossover appeal.” — School Library Journal (starred review)


In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructi...

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