A Long Road on a Short Day

The House of a Million Pets

Counting on Grace

Little Frida: A Story of Frida Kahlo

Dream Big, Shine Bright: Stories of Amazing Girls

Hold Fast

Witness

I Choose to Try Again: A Colorful, Rhyming Picture Book About Perseverance and Diligence

One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

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.

This 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.

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Anthony Browne, 2019

Dream Big, Shine Bright: Stories of Amazing Girls

Riley Grace, 2023

Hold Fast

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I Choose to Try Again: A Colorful, Rhyming Picture Book About Perseverance and Diligence

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