NATASHA LANDS DOWN UNDER
By Katherine McCaughan
Natasha Lands Down Under, a young adult novel about a Russian family fleeing the dangers of the Communist Revolution in China and arriving in Australia in 1950, has placed first in The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards in the Young Adult Fiction – Historical/Cultural category. The story chronicles the struggles of headstrong Natasha to fit in at school where she is the only one who cannot speak English, and at home where she clashes with Aunt Vera and her two sons.
