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One of <i>Horn Book</i>'s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: <i>The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.</i> <i>A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.</i> <i>A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.</i> But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility.
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Breaking Stalin's Nose, Eugene Yelchin
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Breaking Stalin's Nose
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eugene Yelchin
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0805092161
- ISBN13
- 9780805092165
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Children's Books, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Family, Children's Books, World War II, Russia, Europe, Juvenile Fiction, Middle Grade, Communism, Soviet Union
- Description
- One of <i>Horn Book</i>'s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: <i>The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.</i> <i>A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.</i> <i>A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.</i> But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility.