Publisher's Synopsis
Sarah and Jenny are best friends in Washington,DC, during the politically charged 1980s. As Cold War rhetoric escalates in1982, the two ten-year-olds write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropovasking for peace. Jennys letter gets a response, and Sarah is left behind whenher friend accepts the Kremlins invitation to visit and becomes aninternational media sensation. The girls friendship still hasnt mended whenJenny and her parents die in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah getsa letter suggesting that Jennys death might have been a hoax. In her search forthe truth, she delves into her personal Cold War history and attempts toseparate fact from propaganda.
