Title: Shadow of a bull
Description: Maia Wojciechowska's family fled Poland during World War II and emigrated to the United States after the war. She worked as an undercover detective, a motorcycle racer, a translator for Radio Free Europe, and a bullfighter before turning to writing. She was a friend of Ernest Hemingway, who said she knew more about bullfighting than any other woman. 

[from Amazon.com]"Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness: how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting for the day Manolo will fulfill his father's legacy?

But Manolo has a secret he dares to share with no one: he is a coward, without afición, the love of the sport that enables a bullfighter to rise above his fear and face a raging bull. As the day when he must enter the ring approaches, Manolo finds himself questioning which requires more courage: to follow in his father's legendary footsteps or to pursue his own destiny?"
Subjects: Bullfights, Coming of age, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Fiction.., Juvenile fiction, Newbery Medal, Social life and customs, Bildungsromans, Newbery medal books, Children: Grades 3-4, Large type books, Children's fiction, Bullfights, fiction, Spain, fiction, Boys, fiction
Places: Spain
Time periods: 20th century