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Uncle Snake
Contributor(s): Gollub, Matthew (Author), Martinez, Leovigildo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1889910325     ISBN-13: 9781889910321
Publisher: Tortuga Press
OUR PRICE:   $6.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2004
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Mexico
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2004094729
Lexile Measure: 730
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.3" W x 10.9" (0.39 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mexican
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 53220
Reading Level: 3.9   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
In this mysterious tale set in ancient Mexico, something unearthly happens when a boy enters a forbidden cave. No curandero can change him back. Only the nahual, a shape-changing magic worker, can see beyond the horizon: "You are destined," he tells the boy, "to show the world something new." Twenty years later, the boy is a young man, known to village children as "Uncle Snake." Finally, it's time to discover the glorious change that awaits him. On this third collaboration, Matthew Gollub and Leovigildo Martínez have woven a captivating story, again set amid the rich folk culture of Mr. Martínez's native Oaxaca.

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Artwork honored by the Society of Illustrators in New York
Paintings and text displayed in over 20 museums nationwide