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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

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Availability:In StockContributor:Eugene Yelchin, Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2024-05-21Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536236248ISBN-10:1536236241UPC:9781536236248Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Art, People & Places, Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Drawing, Europe, ArtSize:8.20 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC20GY7B1X
"Yelchin delivers a darkly humorous slice-of-life account of growing up in the Soviet Union. . . . Humorous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Candlewick Press (MA)ISBN-13:9781536236248ISBN-10:1536236241UPC:9781536236248Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Art, People & Places, Biography & AutobiographyBook Topic:Drawing, Europe, ArtSize:8.20 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC20GY7B1X
Eugene Yelchin is the co-author and illustrator of the 2018 National Book Award Finalist The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, co-written with M. T. Anderson. A Tomie dePaola Illustrator Award Winner, he also received a Newbery Honor for his novel Breaking Stalin's Nose. Born in Leningrad, Russian-American Eugene Yelchin now lives in Topanga, California, with his family.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

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