Label Caminar Title Caminar Statement of responsibility Skila Brown Creator Told in verse and set in 1981, this book follows a twelve-year-old Guatemalan boy who lives through the massacre of his village and must decide what it means to be a man in a time of war.Will he be in time, and brave enough, to warn them about the soldiers? What will he do then? A novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, Caminar is the moving story of a boy who loses nearly everything before discovering who he really is.-Amazon Numb and alone, he must join a band of guerillas as they trek to the top of the mountain where Carlos's abuela lives. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. But Mama tells him not yet - he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe.
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