Title:
My brigadista year / Katherine Paterson.
ISBN:
9780763695088
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
198 pages : map ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes timeline of Cuban history.
Awards Note:
"A Junior Library Guild selection."
Contents:
The campaign--Havana, March 1961 -- Back to the beginning--Havana, 1947-1958 -- My secondary school--Havana, 1958-1959 -- Preparing to leave--Havana, March 1961 -- Varadero training camp--April 1961 -- Into the Escambray mountains--April 1961 -- Our squad--Base camp, April 1961 -- My new family--arriving on assignment, early May 1961 -- Writing his own name--At the Santanas' farm, May 1961 -- I can read!--On assignment, June-July 1961 -- Danger--July 1961 -- Life goes on--On assignment, July-September 1961 -- The accident--at the Santanas' farm, September 1961 -- Too hard--October 1961 -- The decision--Late October 1961 -- Celebrations--November 1961 -- ¡Venceremos!--November-December 1961 -- ¡Vencimos!--Leaving the mountains, December 1961.
Summary:
Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 6.4.
Geographic Term:
Audience:
830L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn973511985
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
