The corn grows ripe
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
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We read this one in a day. My daughters give this one four stars because they found it to be too short. Well worth an award winner. Now, I want to go plant a garden for food harvesting.
Tigre's father is hurt. It is to Tigre that the Mayan family must look to take over the father's work. Tigre rises to the occasion and successfully helps the family to put in a good corn crop, though a severe drought threatened the family's crop and their survival.
There was no feeling of judgment in this book, no feeling that the people in the story were savages or ignorant. Instead, the story was told from the point of view of a detached observer. The story holds up. Newbery Honor.
