BREAKING STALIN'S NOSE By: Eugene Yelchin

BREAKING STALIN'S NOSE  By: Eugene Yelchin
Sasha is looking forward to becoming a Young Pioneer. It is eqivelent of being a young communist with loyalty to Stalin. His father is supposed to come to school and present the award. But the night before he is arrested and sent to prison for treason. Sasha doesn't know what to do, he is kicked out of his apartment and goes to an Aunt's house where he is turned away. This book gives you insight as to what it was like for millions of people under the rule of Stalin. A book to be read together as a family as the content is something that needs to be discussed, a topic we don't usually come across.
This was a Newbery honor book this year. Ages 9-12  Henry Holt