Soft pick for this one. My son and I read this as part of level 7 of Build Your Library homeschool curriculum. It's a kid's-eye-view of the events leading up to the Romanian Revolution in 1989. I'll have to ask my friend who grew up in Romania during this time how accurate it is because it's a lot like the stuff us 80s kids were told about Communist countries, and I'm never sure how much of that was Cold War propaganda. Fun story, though.