The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781536215526)

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: Eugene Yelchin
ISBN-10: 153621552X
ISBN-13: 9781536215526
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 514172 / Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Award: Golden Kite - Honor Book

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 66
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2021 pg. 129
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2021 - Book Of Special Distinction
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
School Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 109
Shelf Awareness 11/23/2021
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2021 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style