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200 pp.
| Candlewick |
March, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-6516-6$15.99
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YA
Exquisitely crafted poems make up this verse novel set in 1981, during the Guatemalan Civil War. Wracked with survivor's guilt after his village is massacred, Carlos begins to walk--caminar--to his grandmother's village to warn of attack. The poems, all written from Carlos's point of view and all accessible to readers, are emotional, visceral, and lyrical. Glos.