<p>Still looking for a Russia/Soviet book. (My own favorite is The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.) Haven’t read much of that world except some of the Russian novels/drama classics. Maybe there aren’t a lot of YA-friendly novels that touch that or other Slavic regions? Might the novel Everything Is Illuminated work (I’ve only seen the film)? However, she already has a solid foundation in Europe-centered Holocaust/WW II lit. BTW, the suggestions above ^ for Middle-East tales/lit would be completely new to her. </p>