num_pages: 160
description: One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011Sasha 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 Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.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.
language: English
title: Breaking Stalin's Nose
publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)