I Am a Taxi
Deborah Ellis
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Publisher:
Groundwood Books Ltd
Groundwood Books Ltd
DRM:
Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2021
2021
ISBN-13:
9781773068770
Description:
<p><strong>Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award </strong></p>
<p>For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession.</p>
<p>Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily runs off while under his watch, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando's plan to make big money, fast. </p>
<p>Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.</p>
<p><strong>Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:</strong></p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6<br />Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.</p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6<br />Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.</p>
<p>For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession.</p>
<p>Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily runs off while under his watch, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando's plan to make big money, fast. </p>
<p>Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.</p>
<p><strong>Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:</strong></p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6<br />Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.</p><p>CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6<br />Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.</p>