Beyond the barricade
By: Deborah Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780192727633
Subjects: Cocaine industry; Juvenile fiction; Protest movements; Social conditions; Coca industry; Fiction
Description: A sequel to I am a taxi (also published as The Prison Runner). Diego is lost and far from home. He is taken in by a poor family who grow coca crops for survival. After the army burns their crop a demonstation for justice turns deadly Diego must decide to stay and fight or leave in the hope of finally making it home.
Notes: Originally published: Canada: Groundwood/House of Anansi, 2007.