Never read copy, but dust jacket has some scratches. Book is a child's eye-veiw of Soviet Russia. 5 year old Nina's beachball floated away at the Black Sea to Turkey, behind the border She wanted no borders. At Red Square, she thought everything would be red. She was given strange candy by 2 Finnish children when she was 7. Her teacher said it might contain bombs-but it was chewing gum

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