The walls of Cartagena
By: by Julia Durango ; illustrated by Tom Pohrt.
Contributors: Pohrt, Tom, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781416941026
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Juvenile fiction; Catholic Church -- Fiction; Slavery -- Juvenile fiction; Leprosy -- Juvenile fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Leprosy -- Fiction; Cartagena (Colombia) -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile fiction; Colombia -- History -- 17th century -- Juvenile fiction; Cartagena (Colombia) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction; Colombia -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.
Notes: Ages 8-12.

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