I Am a Taxi

Informationen zum Autor DEBORAH ELLIS is the author of The Breadwinner , which has been published in thirty languages. She has won the Governor General's Award, the Middle East Book Award, the Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Deborah has donated more than $2 million in royalties to organizations such as Right to Learn Afghanistan, Mental Health Without Borders and the UNHCR. She lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Klappentext For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women's 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. Diego's adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's hand-knitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister runs away, 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Ellis, Deborah Lynn Ellis, Ellis Deborah
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2008
• EAN: 9780888997364
• ISBN: 978-0-88899-736-4
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 184 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cocalero Novels; Cocalero Novels
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, young adult fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Law & Crime, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Violence, Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, JUVENILE FICTION / Places / Caribbean & Latin America