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TREASURE OF THE WORLD

Tara Sullivan

A young girl must find a way to help her family survive in a desolate and impoverished Bolivian silver mining community in this eye-opening tale of resilience.
Twelve-year-old Ana wants nothing more than to escape the future set for her and her classmates in her small mining village. Boys her age are beginning to leave school to become silver miners and girls her age are destined to one day be the wives of miners. But when her often ill eleven-year-old brother is forced by their demanding father to start work in the mines, Ana gives up her dreams of school to volunteer in his place.
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Published 2021-02-01 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

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2022-2023 Camellia Children's Choice Book Award Nominee (AL) 2022 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year 2022 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Finalist 2021 Kirkus Best Book

Rich with memorable characters and streaks of brilliant writing, as in the author's previous works, Ana's story takes readers on an arduous and ultimately rewarding journey that illuminates a fraction of the human toll behind the profit-driven pursuits of a materialistic world. Heartbreakingly splendid.

Utterly riveting. . . [O]ffers a view of complex family dynamics and child labor that is shocking and powerful.

Farsi - Porteghaal