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Based on a true story, this novel tells the heartwrenching story of a girl in the midst of civil war in Guatemala.
In her remote Guatemalan village, 14-year-old Gabriela is known as Tree Girl for her habit of fleeing to the forest and climbing high to escape the world. When guerrilla warfare comes to her area, her life is changed forever. Over dangerous miles and months of hunger and thirst, Gabriela’s search for her sister Alicia and for a safe haven becomes a search for self.
Praise for TREE GIRL:
“…an instructive and satisfying survival story.”—School Library Journal
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Release date
January 13, 2009 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780739372661
- File size: 133211 KB
- Duration: 04:37:31
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.7
- Lexile® Measure: 880
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Reviews
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This true account comes from Gabriela, a survivor of the Guatemalan Civil War of the 1980s. Amber Sealey brings a matter-of-fact practicality to Gabriela, a 14-year-old girl who can climb higher than any boy in her Mayan village. Climbing trees saves her when the soldiers come to brutalize her village. She escapes and goes to a refugee camp, but the soldiers come again, and, again from high in the trees, she observes the beating, rape, and murder of innocents. Ben Mikaelsen's simple, direct language and Sealey's passionless voice produce a much-needed disconnect between the listener and the atrocities described. Sealey doesn't sensationalize, yet she manages to impart the horrors Gabriela witnesses, her resentment against the American government for supporting the soldiers, and her survivor's guilt. Grim, graphic, and powerful. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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