My Brigadista Year eAudiobook MP3

In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medalwinning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castros national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.

When thirteen-year-old Nora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castros army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven and her father roars like a lion. Nora has barely been outside of Havanawhy would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock in somebodys kitchen? But Nora is stubborn: didnt her parents teach her to share what she has with someone in need? Surprisingly, Noras abuela takes her side, even as she makes Nora promise to come home if things get too hard. But how will Nora know for sure when that time has come? Shining light on a little-known moment in history, Katherine Paterson traces a young teens coming-of-age journey from a sheltered life to a singular mission: teaching fellow Cubans of all ages to read and write while helping with the work of their daily lives and sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries hiding in the hills nearby. Inspired by true accounts, the novel includes an authors note and a time line of Cuban history.