Elisa Amado
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border. They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers.