| Description |
289 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison. |
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1999, Bolivia. Francisco's father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system. Now Francisco and his young sister must move into prison with their father. There, they find a world unlike anything they've ever known. Prison life is dirty, dire, and dehumanizing. There's only one other option: break up the family and take his sister to their grandparents in the Andean highlands, fleeing the city and the future within his grasp. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 287). |
| Subject |
Families -- Bolivia -- Juvenile fiction.
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Indians of South America -- Juvenile fiction.
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Prisons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Family life -- Bolivia -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject |
Political corruption -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Subject |
Bolivia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Aymara Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780399169007 (hardback) |
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0399169008 (hardback) |
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