A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux

Post date: Jul 25, 2011 10:08:36 PM

Gloria has always told Blaise Fortune that he was saved from a horrific train accident by her when he was a baby. Gloria told Blaise that his French mother told her to take care of him until she was better. She never did come to get Blaise and Gloria ended up raising him. Now at the age of ten, Blaise's life is turned upside down because the area of the Soviet Union known as the Caucuses is embattled in a civil war and Gloria and Blaise become refugees. Through Blaise's memories, he will tell you what they did in order to survive the war and how they got to France and freedom. Through his journey to France and journey into adulthood Blaise will find out that the stories he was told were not always the total truth. Blaise will come to question who he truly is, and if knowing the truth will change him. Winner of the 2011 Mildred L. Batchelder Award.