The Composition
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780888993908 (0888993900)
Publish date: March 17th 2000
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Literature,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Family,
Politics,
Picture Books,
Latin American,
International,
International Literature
What a brilliant little book! It explains dictatorship in such a great way. It really should be mandatory to read this book at school. I just wish that more kids were as clever as Pedro. He uses a fantastic method to rule out the government's really mean technique of trying to find out whose parents...
4/9/11 ** While at school in an apparently Central-American dictatorship, a boy is told to enter an essay contest on the topic of "What My Family Does at Night." The boy's response is shaped by the recent arrest of the father of one of his friends and his parents' actual activity of listening to a ...
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