Secret of the Andes
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Children's novel, winner of the Newbery Medal 1953
Cusi, a modern Inca boy, leaves his home high in the Andes mountains to learn the mysterious secret of his ancient ancestors. Accompanied by his pet Llama, Misti, he slowly discovers the truth about his birth and his people's ancient glory–now he must prove himself worthy to be entrusted with the fabulous secret from the past
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Secret of the Andes is a quiet story of an Inca boy growing up in the mountains of Peru, raising llamas. This boy, Cusi, knows little of his past, and has no home other than the mountains, no family outside his elderly mentor and his llamas.
Time passes and Cusi knows he must leave the mountain, leave his llamas, leave his mentor, and go to the city to seek out his heart's desire. Will he find this heart's desire? And, if he does, will it be what he thought it would be? A wonderful little story of the seeking and finding of simple happiness in a big world.
