El Lector.
Durbin, William
El Lector. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2006.
Bella always dreamed of being a lector, just like her Grandfather, who reads novels, political essays and union news to the workers in a cigar factory. However, circumstances force Bella to take a job at the cigar factory to help support her family instead of getting the education she needs to be a reader. Then, her Aunt Lola is arrested with other workers after a union meeting, and radios begin to replace the lectors in the factories, and Bella must find a way to save her family and her dreams.
0-385-74651-2
Cuban american families--Literature--Cigar industry--Fiction--Depressions--Fiction--Oral reading--Fiction
Historical fiction--Florida--fiction
El Lector. - New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2006.
Bella always dreamed of being a lector, just like her Grandfather, who reads novels, political essays and union news to the workers in a cigar factory. However, circumstances force Bella to take a job at the cigar factory to help support her family instead of getting the education she needs to be a reader. Then, her Aunt Lola is arrested with other workers after a union meeting, and radios begin to replace the lectors in the factories, and Bella must find a way to save her family and her dreams.
0-385-74651-2
Cuban american families--Literature--Cigar industry--Fiction--Depressions--Fiction--Oral reading--Fiction
Historical fiction--Florida--fiction