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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
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