Bibliograph

Type

Label

My brigadista year, Katherine Paterson

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

830L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

011-013

Literary Form

novels

Main title

My brigadista year

Oclc number

973511985

Responsibility statement

Katherine Paterson

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, 6.4.Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 5.3, 5, 192449.Lexile, 830L.

Summary

When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro's army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana -- why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock in somebody's kitchen? But Lora is stubborn: didn't her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly, Lora's abuela takes her side, even as she makes Lora promise to come home if things get too hard. But how will Lora know for sure when that time has come? Shining light on a little-known moment in history, Katherine Paterson traces a young teen's coming-of-age journey from a sheltered life to a singular mission: teaching fellow Cubans of all ages to read and write, while helping with the work of their daily lives and sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries hiding in the hills nearby

Target audience

juvenile

Creator