My Brigadista year
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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Language
English
Description
In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro’s army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana — why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock in somebody’s kitchen? But Lora is stubborn: didn’t her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly, Lora’s abuela takes her side, even as she makes Lora promise to come home if things get too hard. But how will Lora know for sure when that time has come? Shining light on a little-known moment in history, Katherine Paterson traces a young teen’s coming-of-age journey from a sheltered life to a singular mission: teaching fellow Cubans of all ages to read and write, while helping with the work of their daily lives and sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries hiding in the hills nearby. Inspired by true accounts, the novel includes an author’s note and a timeline of Cuban history.
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Contributors
Paterson, Katherine Author
ISBN
9780763695088
9780763698874
9780763698874
Subjects
Subjects
Adult education -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Adventure stories
Books and
Books and reading -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Children -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Communities -- Study and teaching -- Cuba
Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Families -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Literacy programs -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Schools -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Teachers -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Adventure stories
Books and
Books and reading -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Children -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Communities -- Study and teaching -- Cuba
Cuba -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Families -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Literacy programs -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Schools -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
Teachers -- Cuba -- Juvenile fiction
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