A Bear for Miguel
by Elaine Marie Alphin
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A young girl in El Salvador goes to the market with her father and helps her family obtain necessities by trading a precious item of her own.Tags
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I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a multicultural book which the main character was a little Latino girl named Maria. The setting was El Salvador during war time when times were hard. The time was the 1980's. Maria went to the market with her father and a boy named Paco wanted her blue teddy bear really bad and Maria sold it to help her family.
I feel that it really showed the family values that Maria showed.
I feel that it really showed the family values that Maria showed.
A charming story for children about family relationships and love.
NOTE: The author's father is from El Salvador, where the story is set.
NOTE: The author's father is from El Salvador, where the story is set.
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Elain Marie Alphin was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California. She attended Rice University and upon graduation she received a Watson Research Fellowship, a grant given to graduating college seniors to fund independent study and travel outside the United States. She spent the next year in England, doing research for a novel she was writing show more about Richard III and his murder of his nephews. She turned her research into a novel for middle-grade readers entitled, Tournament of Time. Her other novels includeded Ghost Cadet, Picture Perfect, The Perfect Shot, and Simon Says. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery and was named a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for the novel Counterfeit Son. She died on August 19, 2014 at age 58. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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