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I Am a Taxi (The Cocalero Novels)

Resource Type

Book - Child

Description

Product Description "For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women's Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs. Diego's adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's hand-knitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners...."

Ages

9 years - 12 years.

Languages

English

ISBN

0888997361

Author

Deborah Ellis

Publication

2008 Groundwood Books

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