My brigadista year /

By: Paterson, Katherine [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Walker Books, 2018Description: 199 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781406380811 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990 -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Fiction 9+. | General.DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: When 13-year-old Nora 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?
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When 13-year-old Nora 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?

10+.