A biography of the young girl who, as a result of a letter written to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, visited the Soviet Union as an ambassador of peace. Includes

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kreml

"A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment with the deeper gratificati

A ten-year-old from Maine describes her trip to Russia at the invitation of Yuri Andropov after writing him a letter expressing her fears about a nuclear war.

Describes Samantha Smith's historic trip to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, and her subsequent travels and speeches promotin