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Rodriguez, Luis J. Vazquez, Carlos, Illustrator

La llaman America

32 pp. January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 1-880684-41-1
(3) 4-6 Translated by Tino Villanueva. America Soliz, a nine-year-old Mixteca Indian from Mexico, is surrounded by violence and poverty in her new life in a Chicago ghetto. Inspired by a visiting poet at school, she discovers she has a talent for writing. The illustrations show both real and fantastic animals flowing from the paper as America writes. Realistic details keep the text from becoming too didactic. Also available in English.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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