The Corn Grows Ripe
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatâan, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatâan, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140363135 (0140363130)
ASIN: 140363130
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 88
Edition language: English
Tigre’s father is hurt. It is to Tigre that the Mayan family must look to take over the father’s work. Tigre rises to the occasion and successfully helps the family to put in a good corn crop, though a severe drought threatened the family’s crop and their survival. There was no feeling of judgment i...