Breaking Stalin S Nose

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429949958

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Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin Pdf

A Newbery Honor Book. 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 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. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627792912

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Arcady's Goal by Eugene Yelchin Pdf

From Newbery Honor–winning author Eugene Yelchin comes another glimpse into Soviet Russia. For twelve-year-old Arcady, soccer is more than just a game. Sent to live in a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state, it is a means of survival, securing extra rations, respect, and protection. Ultimately, it proves to be his chance to leave. But in Soviet Russia, second chances are few and far between. Will Arcady seize his opportunity and achieve his goal? Or will he miss his shot? This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250120823

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Spy Runner by Eugene Yelchin Pdf

In Spy Runner, a noir mystery middle grade novel from Newbery Honor author Eugene Yelchin, a boy stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security.

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781627796606

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The Haunting of Falcon House by Eugene Yelchin Pdf

A long undisturbed bedroom. A startling likeness. A mysterious friend. When twelve-year-old Prince Lev Lvov goes to live with his aunt at Falcon House, he takes his rightful place as heir to the Lvov family estate. Prince Lev dreams of becoming a hero of Russia like his great ancestors. But he'll discover that dark secrets haunt this house. Prince Lev is the only one who can set them free-will he be the hero his family needs? This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Eugene Yelchin,Mark Turetsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1470331179

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Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin,Mark Turetsky Pdf

Author : Nina Bawden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849436113

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Carrie's War by Nina Bawden Pdf

When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village. But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own - and a group of characters who will change Carrie's life for ever. There's mean Mr Evans, who won't let the children eat meat; but there’s also kind Auntie Lou. There's brilliant young Albert Sandwich, another evacuee, and Mr Johnny, who speaks a language all of his own. Then there's Hepzibah Green, the witch at Druid’s Grove who makes perfect mince pies, and the ancient skull with its terrifying curse... For adults and young people aged eight and over. Emma Reeves has created a stunning stage adaptation of Nina Bawden’s much loved classic account of life as an evacuee in the 1940s, which opened at the Lillian Bayliss Theatre in November 2006. This edition includes teachers' notes and activities for classes based on the play.

Author : Mina Javaherbin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545636711

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Elephant in the Dark by Mina Javaherbin Pdf

A bold, humorous rendition of "The Three Blind Men and the Elephant" maginificently illustrated by an award-winning artist! When the villagers hear of a huge and mysterious creature that has come all the way from India, they steal into the dark barn to find out what it is."It's like a snake!" says one. "It's like a tree trunk," says another. "No, it's like a fan!" argues the third. Who is right? Which of them knows the creature's true shape?Mina Javaherbin's charming and witty retelling combined with Eugene Yelchin's refreshingly brilliant illustrations bring this enlightened classic, inspired by Rumi's poem, vividly to life.

Author : Lee Wardlaw
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429991056

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Won Ton by Lee Wardlaw Pdf

Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, this adoption story, Won Ton, told entirely in haiku, is unforgettable. Nice place they got here. Bed. Bowl. Blankie. Just like home! Or so I've been told. Visiting hours! Yawn. I pretend not to care. Yet -- I sneak a peek. So begins this beguiling tale of a wary shelter cat and the boy who takes him home.

Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307815965

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The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps by Stephen Krensky Pdf

In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.

Author : Candlewick Press
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763697730

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Voices from the Second World War by Candlewick Press Pdf

In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten. The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared, children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there, to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now, in a unique collection, RAF pilots, evacuees, resistance fighters, Land Girls, U.S. Navy sailors, and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories, passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs, this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.

Author : Tonya Bolden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781681198088

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Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden Pdf

In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime. As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants. Until she meets a lady named Dorcas Vashon, the richest and most cultured black woman she's ever encountered. When Dorcas makes Essie an offer she can't refuse, she becomes Victoria. Transformed by a fine wardrobe, a classic education, and the rules of etiquette, Victoria is soon welcomed in the upper echelons of black society in Washington, D. C. But when the life she desires is finally within her grasp, Victoria must decide how much of herself she is truly willing to surrender.

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536222340

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The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin Pdf

An Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Winner With a masterful mix of comic timing and disarming poignancy, Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin offers a memoir of growing up in Cold War Russia. 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. 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. 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805092161

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Breaking Stalin's Nose by Anonim Pdf

In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672772

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Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Pdf

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.

Author : Katie Quirk
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467466103

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A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk Pdf

Thirteen-year-old Shida, whose name means "problem" in Swahili, certainly has a lot of problems in her life -- her father is dead, her depressed mother is rumored to be a witch, and everyone in her rural Tanzanian village expects her to marry rather than pursue her dream of becoming a healer. So when the village's elders make a controversial decision to move their people to a nearby village, Shida welcomes the change. Surely the opportunity to go to school and learn from a nurse can only mean good things. However, after a series of puzzling misfortunes plague the new village, Shida must prove to her people that moving was the right decision, and that they can have a better life in their new home. For author pictures of Tanzania, a video depicting the life of a modern Tanzanian girl, discussion questions for each chapter of the book, and suggestions for further reading, please go to katie-quirk.com and follow the links for A Girl Called Problem.