Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Children |
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age Children |
Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
Audience |
Ages 10 and up. Candlewick Press. |
Awards |
Sydney Taylor Honor Book, Middle Grade, 2022 |
Subject |
Yelchin, Eugene -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
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Yelchin, Eugene -- Family -- Juvenile literature.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Juvenile literature.
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
1953-1985 |
Subject |
Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985 -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Families. |
Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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Autobiographies.
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Added Title |
Growing up behind the Iron Curtain |
ISBN |
9781536215526 (hardcover) |
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153621552X (hardcover) |
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