Book overview
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A New York Public Library (NYPL) Best Book for Kids
A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of the Year
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Most Notable Book
"A book to be read and remembered: a tribute to children whose lives were lost to forces not of their own creation."
-- Kirkus Reviews (STARRED review)
Moving poetry pays homage to thirty-four children lost during Augusto Pinochet's violent dictatorial rule of Chile.
On September 11, 1973, a military coup plunged Chile into seventeen long years of dictatorial rule. Only the return of democracy could reveal the full horrors of Augusto Pinochet's regime: 3,197 people dead or disappeared--including thirty-four children under the age of fourteen.
This poetry collection is a stirring memorial to those victims and the cost of extremism. Thirty-four poems--one for each child lost--consider the diverse hopes of these fragile young lives -- from Alicia to Jaime, H