The Blackbird GirlsThe Blackbird Girls Author: Anne Blankman Narrator: Kathleen Gati Natasha Soudek Description On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work Chernobyl has exploded. Soon, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother. In Leningrad, they begin to learn