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for Where the Flame Trees Bloom by Alma Flor Ada and Antonio Martorell
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
In eleven wonderfully entertaining chapters, Ada recreates scenes and characterizes people from her childhood in Cuba. Readers meet members of Ada's extended family and become acquainted with some of the stories she heard. Today's children can gain a sense of the lovely land and loving people she recalls. All but three of the chapters were translated by the author's daughter. The occasional illustrations are reproduced in brown and white. (Ages 9-12)
CCBC Choices 1994. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1994. Used with permission.
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Includes eleven stories about the relatives and friends that were part of the author's childhood in Cuba.
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