The Boy On The Bridge

The Boy On The Bridge by Natalie Standiford, 248 pages

Laura is an exchange student in Leningrad, in Russia, for a semester. She’s been there for just a short time when she meets a boy, Alyosha. They seem to connect and she starts meeting him after classes, to practice her Russian, but it becomes something more. Laura has been warned that many Russians will try to marry foreigners, especially Americans, to try to use that as a way to get a visa to leave the country but Alyosha isn’t like that. He really loves her. Doesn’t he? This was a teen romance with twist. I really liked it. I think it would probably have more appeal to teen girls.