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Durango, Julia

The Walls of Cartagena

152 pp. | Simon | July, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-4102-6 $15.99
(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Young slave Calepino has lived a privileged life, taught to read and write at a wealthy noblewoman's estate in seventeenth-century Colombia. He leaves his sanctuary to assist a doctor at a leprosy colony, but puts the doctor, a Jewish refugee of the Inquisition, at risk trying to help another slave boy. The story's characters are well defined, and the setting is vividly described.
Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey

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