ISBN: 1250034108 9781250034106

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents

Page count: 176

<p><b>A Newbery Honor Book.</b><br><br>Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:<br><i>The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.</i><br><i>A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.</i><br><i>A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.</i><br>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. <br><br>Eugene Yelchin's 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.<br><br><i>Breaking Stalin's Nose</i> is one of <i>Horn Book</i>'s Best Fiction Books of 2011</p>