Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
181 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children |
Note |
"Originally published in Portuguese as A cabeca di santo by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil in 2014. Subsequently published in English in hardcover by Hot Key Books, London, United Kingdom in 2014. Work published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil/ National Library Foundation." |
Summary |
Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother's last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith. |
Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR 5.8 6.0 182102. |
Provenance |
Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer. |
Subject |
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231. |
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Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231 -- Fiction. |
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Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Homeless persons. |
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Faith -- Juvenile fiction.
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Faith. |
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Prayer -- Juvenile fiction.
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Prayer. |
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Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fathers and sons. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Magic realist fiction.
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Novels.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Young adult works.
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Young adult fiction.
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Added Author |
Hahn, Daniel, translator.
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Added Title |
Cabeça do santo. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015008201
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ISBN |
9780553537925 (hardcover) |
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055353792X (hardcover) |
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9780553537949 (glb) |
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0553537946 (glb) |
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9780553537932 (ebook) |
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