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Uniform Title Shutovskoi kolpak. eng

Title Playing a part / by Daria Wilke ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz.

Publication Info.

New York, New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Fiction	RE F WILKE	---	Available

Edition	First American edition.
Description	161 pages ; 22 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Note	"Originally published in Russian as Shutovskoi kolpak by Samokat Publishing House, May 2013" -- colophon
Audience	LEX 880
Study Program	AR UG RL 5.5 PTS 5 173608EN
Summary	Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart - his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.
Audience	Ages 14 & up.
	Grades 9 & up.
Language	Translated from Russian.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subject	Gays -- Russia (Federation) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Marionettes -- Juvenile fiction.
	Puppet theater -- Russia (Federation) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Puppeteers -- Juvenile fiction.
	Gays -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.
	Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Marionettes -- Fiction.
	Puppet theater -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.
	Puppeteers -- Fiction.
	Gay youth -- Russia -- Fiction.
	Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	Puppeteers -- Fiction.
	Puppets and puppet plays -- Fiction.
	Theater -- Russia -- Fiction.
	Russia (Federation) -- Juvenile fiction.
	Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.
	Russia -- Fiction.
Added Author	Schwartz, Marian, 1951- translator.
ISBN	9780545726078 (hardcover)