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Product Description: Pedro and Daniel are two typical nine-year-old boys. Up until Daniel's father gets arrested, their biggest worry had been how to improve their soccer skills. Now, they are thrust into a situation where they must grapple with the incomprehensible: dictatorship and its inherent abuses. Winner of the Americas Award for Children's Literature and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.
Culture/Community: Chilean / Chilean American
Heritage & History: Hispanic Heritage and History
Themes for Children: Writing, Sports, Civil Rights, When Things Are Hard
Format: Picture Book
Audiobook: No
Age Level: 9-12
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Book Series: Tales of Courage: Hispanic Heritage, Time for Soccer!
9780888995506