Canada's Deborah Ellis, the author of Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and Mud City, has done it again. She has married non-fiction with fiction to create a gripping novel about Diego, a 12-year old Bolivian boy who grows up in a prison. Deborah's journalistic style teaches about serious global issues with her user-friendly vocabulary. I am a Taxi is a splendid visit to Bolivia. The book dedication reads: "To those we keep in cages."
Sacred leaf , a sequel to I am a Taxi, promises to be equally gripping.
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- Nutana Library is an amazing art gallery. In 1919, 29 graduates did not return from the battlefields of WW I. After many challenges, 29 paintings for purchased in memory of the fallen soldiers. After WW II more graduates died on European battlefieds. The paintings include Kenderdine, Loveroff..later an allan Sapp painting was donated to this amazing collection. School tours of the paitings have been very successful.
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I just finished reading this book and it is wonderful. It brings up so many issues that interest me. The following quote by Mando really stuck with me: (on page 64)
"Laws are made by people with money to keep people like us poor"
That is so true. The US war on drugs is the cause of a lot of the misery and suffering in this book.
Are there 2 Tanya's in this group?
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Yes. I work at Nutana as an EA. Maybe I should edit my profile to end the confusion.
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