I read Tanya and the Border Guard to my children, and while they enjoyed the story of a Christian family in cold war Russia, they were disappointed that the story was fiction (no matter how true the story is). Children of the Storm was a good "real life" story of the same setting. Natasha tells the story of her life as the daughter of a pastor in Russia, at a time when Christians were "officially" free but actually oppressed. She relates her experiences in the public school, her famiily's ordeal when her father was imprisoned, and some of her young adult life until her father was released to the United States. Black and white pictures of Natasha, her church youth group, and others added to the interest of my children. The story itself was well written and challenging for both children and adults.