One Small Clue

by Mara Kay

When they discover they are the orphaned children of a Russian stowaway, sixteen-year-old twins, Madge and John, travel to the port city of Odessa to try and trace the one small clue they have of their parents' identity.

121 pages, Hardcover

First published December 12, 1982

About the author

The author of a number of children's novels, many of them works of historical fiction set in Russia or Yugoslavia, Mara Kay was (according to the dust-jacket blurb of The Burning Candle) "of Russian extraction, was brought up in Yugoslavia, but has lived in America since 1950."