A 2012 Newbery Honor winner.
Breaking Stalin\'s Nose is one of Horn Book \'s Best Fiction Books of 2011.
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.
And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night.
He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway.
He breaks a classmate\'s glasses with a snowball.
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.
A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Newbery Honor Book.
But when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist.
A 2012 Newbery Honor winner
