Title: The corn grows ripe
Description: 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.
Subjects: Indians of Mexico, Juvenile fiction, Mayas, Fiction, Maya children, Corn, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Indians of mexico, mayas, fiction, Mexico, fiction, Farm life, fiction
Places: Mexico