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My Brigadista Year
by Katherine Paterson
Ages: 9+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-0-7636-9508-8
Keywords: Coming of age, Cuba - History, Diversity, Cuba Literacy campaign
Traveling to the mountains, Lora, a 13-year-old Havana student, faces dangerous situations as a literacy campaign volunteer in 1961 post-revolutionary Cuba. Back matter.