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Having escaped cocaine processors in the Bolivian jungle, 12-year-old Diego finds a temporary home with a family of small farmers, who join a country-wide protest after their coca crop is confiscated. This second novel in the Cocalero series makes clear the importance of coca in Bolivia’s rural economy, the farmers’ grinding poverty and hard work, and the hardship caused by attempts to wipe out this traditional crop. Although her sympathy with the protesters is clear, Ellis shows admirable and less admirable characters on both sides, and she leaves the door open for further episodes. Grades 5-8. --Kathleen Isaacs
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Having escaped cocaine processors in the Bolivian jungle, 12-year-old Diego finds a temporary home with a family of small farmers, who join a country-wide protest after their coca crop is confiscated. This second novel in the Cocalero series makes clear the importance of coca in Bolivia’s rural economy, the farmers’ grinding poverty and hard work, and the hardship caused by attempts to wipe out this traditional crop. Although her sympathy with the protesters is clear, Ellis shows admirable and less admirable characters on both sides, and she leaves the door open for further episodes. Grades 5-8. --Kathleen Isaacs
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The people of Bolivia have grown coca for legitimate purposes for hundreds of years, but the demands of America's War on Drugs now threaten this way of life. Deborah Ellis's searing follow-up to the highly praised I Am a Taxi deals with this frank reality.
After he manages to escape from virtual enslavement in an illegal cocaine operation, Diego is taken in by the Ricardo family. These poor coca farmers give Diego a safe haven where he recovers from his ordeal in the jungle. But the army soon moves in and destroys the family's coca crop — their livelihood. So Diego joins the cocaleros as they protest the destruction of their crops and confront the army head-on by barricading the roads. While tension between the cocaleros and the army builds to a dramatic climax, Diego wonders whether he will ever find a way to return to his family. This compelling novel defies conventional wisdom on an important issue, and shows how people in one part of the world unknowingly create hardship for people in another.
After he manages to escape from virtual enslavement in an illegal cocaine operation, Diego is taken in by the Ricardo family. These poor coca farmers give Diego a safe haven where he recovers from his ordeal in the jungle. But the army soon moves in and destroys the family's coca crop — their livelihood. So Diego joins the cocaleros as they protest the destruction of their crops and confront the army head-on by barricading the roads. While tension between the cocaleros and the army builds to a dramatic climax, Diego wonders whether he will ever find a way to return to his family. This compelling novel defies conventional wisdom on an important issue, and shows how people in one part of the world unknowingly create hardship for people in another.
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