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Breaking Stalin's Nose

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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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2011
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Titolo
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2011
Formato
Copertina rigida
Pagine
160
ISBN10
0805092161
ISBN13
9780805092165
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Descrizione
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.