Showing posts with label Laura Resau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Resau. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Farinango

Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Farinango
Delacorte Press
2011
352p.


Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.


Friday, July 30, 2010

Star in the Forest by Laura Resau

Delacorte Press
March 2010
149 pgs.

Summary
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge her trailer park's of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.