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El Lector de William Durbin

El Lector

Autor William Durbin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2013 – vârsta de la 9 până la 12 ani

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Minnesota Book Award (2007), Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (2006)
This heart-warming story is about Bella, a 13-year-old girl in Tampa, Florida, in the 1930s. Her grandfather is a lector at a cigar factory, which means he reads fiction, newspapers, and union news to the workers as they roll cigars. Being a lector is an important role in their Cuban American immigrant community. But the hard times of the Depression mean that Bella must go to work in the factory. Her hope of getting the education a lector needs seems impossible.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781561646784
ISBN-10: 1561646784
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 155 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Pineapple Press, Inc.

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From the Random House Edition:
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8–Bella Lorente, 13, dreams of becoming el lector like her grandfather, reading literature and poetry to the Spanish-speaking cigar-factory workers of Ybor City, FL. However, the Depression, the conflict between workers and owners, and racial tensions alter her plans when her Aunt Lola is arrested for participating in a union meeting. Bellas extended family struggle to free the woman and to seek community in a divided city. Durbin succeeds admirably in creating an accessible world rich in detail. While most children will not know much about lectores, cigar rolling, and Depression-era Spanish Floridian culture, Durbin explains each one clearly, providing tidy translations for all of the Spanish used. In one particularly evocative passage, the wind brings smells from fresh-baked bread, guava, or damp tobacco, depending on its orientation. However, this richly envisioned world sometimes eclipses the rising action of the labor struggles and slows the books pacing, weighing it down with numerous subsidiary plot threads. At certain points, there is an overload of information as the author jumps from labor troubles to Depression-era unemployment to Babe Ruth to 1930s fashions and films. That said, El Lector is better-than-average historical fiction with a strong female protagonist. Give it to fans of Pam Muñoz Ryans Becoming Naomi León (Scholastic, 2004) as a read-alike.–Caitlin Augusta, The Darien Library, CT
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Gr. 4-6. In Depression-era Ybor City, Florida, households receive daily deliveries of milk and fresh Cuban bread, and lectores such as Bella's grandfather entertain cigar workers with readings from literature and politics. But as modern changes reach the factory town, wary officials begin to replace lector podiums with radios ("Owners . . . want workers entertained, not enlightened"), and union unrest is stirred by the arrival of machines. Having set aside dreams of proving that "women can do anything they want" to earn money as a tobacco laborer, 13-year-old Bella witnesses a violently quashed workers' protest, leading to her aunt Lola's imprisonment and a crippling factory shutdown. The vibrant Ybor City atmosphere and Bella's bond with her dignified grandfather are major components of this purposeful narrative, but it is Bella's integrity that will appeal the most to readers, notwithstanding the forced quality of her concluding acts of heroism. Although this may ultimately garner mostly regional audiences, try it as a counterpoint to stories about other young eyewitnesses to labor conflicts, such as Katherine Paterson's Lyddie (1991). Jennifer Mattson
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“William Durbin’s attention to detail–both historical and fictional–make him one of today’s masters of historical YA fiction.”--David Gill, ALAN/National Council of Teachers of English

Notă biografică

William Durbin was born in Minneapolis and lives on Lake Vermilion at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. He and his wife, Barbara, have two grown children. A former teacher, Durbin has published biographies of Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer, as well as several books for young readers, among them The Broken Blade, Wintering, Song of Sampo Lake, and Blackwater Ben. The Broken Blade won the Great Lakes Book Award for Children’s Books and the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Fiction.  

Descriere

 Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a lector like her grandfather, who reads to the workers in a cigar factory in Tampa, Florida. But will Bella be able to get the education she needs during the Depression?

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