TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paterson,Katherine
TI  - My brigadista year
SN  - 9781432849306 (hardcover)
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
KW  - Large print books
KW  - Child teachers
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Rural poor
KW  - Education
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Cuba
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Young adult fiction
N1  - "Thorndike Press large print mini-collections."; Includes a brief timeline of Cuban history (pages 301-319)
N2  - 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. Nora 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 Nora is stubborn: didn't her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly, Nora's abuela takes her side, even as she makes Nora promise to come home if things get too hard. But how will Nora 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. Inspired by true accounts, the novel includes an author's note and a timeline of Cuban history
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