The Road of Bones

Anne Fine


This is a book for ages 11 up, boys and girls.
The book takes place during the Russian Revolution, a misarable time in their history.
The book is about a 12 year old boy named Yuri. Yuri lives with his Mum, Dad and Grandmother in a city.
It describes the unfairness and the brutality of Dictatorship. People are sat at home fearing that anything they say against the leaders will be heard by a neighbour and they will DISAPPEAR.
Yuri's school closes and he is forced to work at a building site, supllying bricks to a worker, it is a dangerous job and one day his best friend is killed by bricks falling on his head. Later when he is on a break they are joking about their leaders but Yuri took it too far he is fored to run away from the City and catches a train away. He stops at a cottage after stumbling across a man and pretends he was sent by the Commisar to fix the roof. He finds out there that people are treated just as badly in their province than he was in his. The old pairs grandson's village had been evcuated but he was left their whilst having a fit.
Yuri works on a farm afterwards, where there is lots of food but is caught by the police and is sentenced too 10 years hard labour. Yuri gets out of working in the mines (which are deadly) by telling a guard that he is a woodcutter. Yuri works as a woodsman for about two years, in which he longs to escape and taste freedom, however the prison is in the middle of knowhere and the watchtowers can see for miles.