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Gr 4-8 The very first page hints at the loss of Milagros de la Torre's wonderful childhood home, Las Brisas, an island in the Caribbean. The child loses the tastes, smells, sounds, and warmth of the loving community as she barely escapes from the harsh and deadly attack of neighbors from a different island, jealous of the bounty found there. Magical realism is a constant element in the unfolding events as the 12-year-old ends up on another islandthis one off the coast ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twelve-year-old Milagros lives with her mother on the island of Las Brisas, an idyllic community in the Caribbean. But after Milagros finds a message in a bottle warning that "Happiness and jealousy are bad cousins," outside evil creeps in. Las Brisas erupts in violence as the neighboring Rubians attack and murder nearly everyone on the island. Milagros escapes and, guided by the stingrays beloved to her mother, encounters her long-lost father's pirate ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Twelve-year-old Milagros escapes an attack on her Caribbean island home. Miraculously, she arrives at an island off the coast of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More