With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of Growing up in Cold War Russia.
Born in Leningrad, Russian-American Eugene Yelchin now lives in Topanga, California, with his family..
A Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award Winner, he also received a Newbery Honor for his novel Breaking Stalin\'s Nose .
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About author(s): Eugene Yelchin is the co-author and illustrator of the 2018 National Book Award Finalist The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge , co-written with M.
With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family.
In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything.
Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents\' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn\'t even have his own room? He\'s not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer.
With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of Growing up in Cold War Russia
