Dissuaded by his mother from confronting soldiers who have murdered a neighbor in his 1981 Guatemalan village, young Carlos joins a band of guerillas in the hope of carrying a warning to his grandmother's mountaintop home.
year: 2014, 2016
call number/section: 1000
subjects: novels in verse, guatemala, history, 1945-1985, juvenile fiction, fiction, coming of age, fiction, guerrillas, guatemala, civil war, 1960-1996
Editions
Brown, Skila
A novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, this is the moving story of a boy who loses nearly everything before discovering who he really is.
Schools: 24
Brown, Skila
Candlewick Press (2014)
Dissuaded by his mother from confronting soldiers who have murdered a neighbor in his 1981 Guatemalan village, young Carlos joins a band of guerillas in the hope of carrying a warning to his grandmother's mountaintop home.
Schools: 0
Brown, Skila
Candlewick Press (2016)
In 1981 with the arrival of soldiers in his Guatemalan village, Carlos must flee and join a band of guerillas who head to the mountains where his grandmother lives to warn her about the soldiers.
Schools: 5