The Baker's Band
Peter's crew—known as the Baker's Band—is pretty different from most of the other groups hanging around Moscow. The other crews act more like gangs, doing some seriously shady stuff and wasting...
Fishing
At the end of the novel, Peter abruptly decides to return to Russia to become a fisherman—but not the type you might think.We know this because Nicholai is also a so-called "fisherman." But Nicho...
The Stone
A few years before the events of The Wild Children, Alex is given a very special gift from his tricky Uncle Dmitri: a stone that he claims will "turn to gold" if Alex can manage to "hold it" and "n...