Book
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
- Published
- 2021
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 208
- Words
- 22210
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 4.9
- Lexile
- 760L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–17
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. - Amazon
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781536215526
- ISBN-10
- 153621552X
Tags
ALSC NotablesArts-DanceBiographyCold WarFamily Life-FathersFamily Life-GrandparentsFamily Life-MothersNonfictionPeople-ChildrenRussia/Soviet Union