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y separately published work icon Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief single work   children's fiction   children's   historical fiction  
Is part of World War II Series Katrina Nannestad , 2020 series - author children's fiction (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief
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'Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ...

'Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table and shouts, 'Run, Sasha! Run!'

'So I run. I run like a rabbit.

'It's spring, 1942. The sky is blue, the air is warm and sweet with the scent of flowers.

'And then everything is gone.

'The flowers, the proud geese, the pretty wooden houses, the friendly neighbours. Only Sasha remains.

'But one small boy, alone in war-torn Russia, cannot survive.

'One small boy without a family cannot survive.

'One small boy without his home cannot survive.

'What that small boy needs is an army.' (Publication summary)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: ABC Books , 2021 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 October 2021
      ISBN: 9780733341465
Alternative title: Kanin, soldat, ängel, tjuv
Language: Swedish
    • Stockholm,
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      Sweden,
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      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      HarperCollins Nordic ,
      2023 .
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      Extent: 298p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2 January 2023.
      ISBN: 9789150974409

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Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards Rosemary Bolger , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;

'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.' 

Young Readers Give Their Verdicts for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Shadowers' Choice Awards Rosemary Bolger , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , August 2022;

'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.' 

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