A 2012 Newbery Honor winner. In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-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.

A 2012 Newbery Honor winner. In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, 10-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.

** 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. 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. Breaking Stalin's Nose is one of Horn Book *'s Best Fiction Books of 2011