The Girl from the City

L. Voronkova’s story “The Girl from the City” was first published in 1943, at the height of the Great Patriotic War. It’s the story of how, because of the war, little Valentinka was left an orphan—but completely by accident she found a new mother and a new family in the distant village of Nachaev. Young readers loved it, and for good reason: the children’s writer L. Voronkova carefully unfolds in her tale a tragic story of one war childhood and, at the same time, makes it clear that love, sympathy, and kindness are always near—even in the hardest times. In 1984, a film of the same name was made based on the story. For younger school age.