Caminar
Skila Brown
2014
Carlos lives in a peaceful little village with Mama. He cannot wait to be grown so that he can
work and help her. But while his village
might be peaceful, the country isn’t and eventually soldiers come looking for
rebels that are supposedly nearby. The
soldiers leave, but they assure everyone that they will deal harshly with
anyone who helps the rebels.
One day
when Carlos’ mama has seen him into the forest to gather mushrooms, he hears
gunshot and he realizes that the soldiers have come back everyone in the
village is being massacred. Knowing he
cannot go back to the village without being killed, Carlos decides to try and
reach his grandmother’s village high up on the mountain so that he can warn the
people there of the great danger they are in.
Caminar is a heart-breaking story of loss amid horrible violence. Skila Brown has chosen to tell the story through
verse, and I really like that decision.
This would be a great book to pair with Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen.
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