ISBN: 1627651411 9781627651417

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men

Page count: 176

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