TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paterson,Katherine
TI  - My brigadista year
SN  - 9780763695088
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Child teachers
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Education
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Cuba
KW  - History
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
N1  - Includes timeline of Cuban history; The campaign--Havana, March 1961 -- Back to the beginning--Havana, 1947-1958 -- My secondary school--Havana, 1958-1959 -- Preparing to leave--Havana, March 1961 -- Varadero training camp--April 1961 -- Into the Escambray mountains--April 1961 -- Our squad--Base camp, April 1961 -- My new family--arriving on assignment, early May 1961 -- Writing his own name--At the Santanas' farm, May 1961 -- I can read!--On assignment, June-July 1961 -- Danger--July 1961 -- Life goes on--On assignment, July-September 1961 -- The accident--at the Santanas' farm, September 1961 -- Too hard--October 1961 -- The decision--Late October 1961 -- Celebrations--November 1961 -- ¡Vencimos!--November-December 1961 -- ¡Vencimos!--Leaving the mountains, December 1961; Accelerated Reader; 6.4
N2  - Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read
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