The Secret Legacy

by Rigoberta Menchú and Dante Liano

Book Overview

Rigoberta Menchu returns to the world of childhood in this, her third book. The novel's seven-year-old heroine, Ixkem, is chosen to tend to the prized cornfields once her grandfather has passed away. But Ixkem isn't sure she can accept this great responsibility. Out in the fields, she discovers a legion of tiny people, no bigger than bananas. They are b'e'n, nahuales -- secret animal spirits -- and when they take Ixkem into the underworld where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888998961
• ISBN13: 9780888998965
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 4 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 3 and higher