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The Dreamer

Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz

Follett Number: 0445KU3
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Scholastic, c2010, p2012
Format: 373 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-26998-8
ISBN-10: 0-439-26998-9
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Chile History 20th Century Fiction
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973 Childhood and Youth Fiction
Poets, Chilean Fiction
Includes bibliographical references (page 371). A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

From the publisher:
Pura Belpre Award Winner A tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree, Pam Munoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sis! From the time he is a young boy, Neftali hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself, Neftali knows he cannot ignore the call. He listens and follows as it leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain on an inspiring voyage of self-discovery that will transform his life and, ultimately, the world. Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and transporting illustrations, Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination as they explore the inspiring early life of the poet who became Pablo Neruda.

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