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The corn grows ripe

by Dorothy Rhoads

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Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.

Indians of MexicoJuvenile fictionMayasFictionMaya childrenCornNewbery HonorChildren's fictionIndians of mexico, mayas, fictionMexico, fictionFarm life, fiction