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Follows the ordeal of fourteen-year-old twins Astra and Hugo Petersons, as they and their family flee their native Latvia before the advancing Russian armies in late 1944 and find themselves homeless refugees in a war-torn Germany.Tags
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Author Information
70+ Works 1,472 Members
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Series
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Tug of War
- Original publication date
- 1989
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .L6626 .T — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 55
- Popularity
- 556,025
- Rating
- (4.17)
- Languages
- English, Finnish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
