![]() Although I will say that any age can read this in terms of middle grade, young adults, adults and still connect with the level of writing and the ideas about the human spirit that are in the pages. But she reports it in dream and in magical realism, which for me, seemed completely appropriate culturally to this book and also completely appropriate for the age level of the children reading it because this is a middle-grade novel. So there is a scene in this book where the village is massacred, right, by the military. But the other thing that I think she did so beautifully is that she handled difficult things gently and with compassion to where the children are developmentally - meaning the readers. Candlewick, 15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7636-6516-6 Writing in verse, Brown debuts with a tense coming-of-age story set amid the Guatemalan Civil War. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the. So the first thing is I think that it's very brave to offer children world history, not just American history, not just the slice of who we are as a people, but also who our neighbors are. ![]() ![]() ![]() We're very squeamish about what we put forth for children, right? We have ideas of what's appropriate for children and what is inappropriate, and certainly the massacre of a village we shy away from. I think that Skila did an amazing job in this novel - largely because it is telling history that we don't normally tell. ![]() These Books Were Made For Walking: Summer Reads To Stroll Through ![]()
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