The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Format:Hardcover It’s the first night of

It’s the first night of Hanukkah in 1912

With a quilt of traditional African symbols and a bit of face paint

because it seems like destruction follows her wherever she goes

and death threatening Lane and those she loves

Can she save herself and prevent her beloved beasts from being used as tools of war

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Format:Hardcover It’s the first night ofWith 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 doesnt even have his own room? Hes not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov obsessed mother, poetry loving