The Girl from Chimel

by Rigoberta Menchú

Book Overview

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Mayan activist Rigoberta Mench brings the world of her earliest childhood vividly to life in this colorful book. Before the war in Guatemala and despite the hardships that the Mayan people endured, life in the Mayan villages of the highlands had a beauty and integrity. This was forever changed by the conflict and brutal genocide that was to come. Mench 's stories of her grandparents and parents, of the natural world that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888996667
• ISBN13: 9780888996664
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 8 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher