In her first novel, the author of such picture books as "Cha-Cha Chimps" and "Pest Fest" combines unparalleled research with sharp, accessible prose to create a tale ripe with adventure and courage. Illustrations.
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In her first novel, the author of such picture books as "Cha-Cha Chimps" and "Pest Fest" combines unparalleled research with sharp, accessible prose to create a tale ripe with adventure and courage. Illustrations.
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published:
2008
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18016837241
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Fair. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are solid. the cover is intact, but may show scuffs or light creases, as well as a possible rolled corner. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, The former owner may have written their name inside the front or back cover. COVER WILL VARY. This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly.
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published:
2008
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17975289987
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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2008
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English
Alibris ID:
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Idealistic boys and girls who respond to the charitable impulses of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Mrs John McCain will read from cover to cover Jula Durango's THE WALLS OF CARTAGENA. For it sketches the famous 17th Century Spanish Missionary Jesuit Saint Peter Claver. In an age of unspeakable cruelty to slaves, the novelette's Father Pedro is not above kissing the sores of lepers and the welts of beaten servants.
Boys and girls will also learn their geography and history. They will see Cartagena as a humid, hot, smelly commercial sugar and silver exporting port of the Spanish Empire's province of what is now called Colombia. They will join the 13 year old slave boy and linguistic genius hero Amadeo/Calepino in heaving up their breakfast every time they board a just arrived slave ship from Africa to translate for Father Pedro as he distributes water, food and spiritual consolation to its miserable human cargo.
THE WALLS OF CARTAGENA is also about pirates, runaway slave villages in the interior of Colombia, a leper colony, a dedicated Jewish doctor under suspicion by the Spanish Inquisition, a rich lady Dona Isabela who teaches Calepino to read four European languages and on and on. Calepino begins as a pampered, spoiled pet house slave of Dona Isabela. A year later he has earned his emancipation after working for a better life for slaves and lepers and conniving to help two slaves flee to freedom. And he has shed several layers of selfishness, too. -OOO-
