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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, February 2004
Hardcover, 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0689849087
ISBN-13: 9780689849084
Grades: P - 2
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Amelia Bloomer Project
- Americas Award Commended Title
- Blue Spruce YA Book Award Nominee (CO)
- Capitol Choices List (DC)
- Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
- Kirkus Editor's Choice
- NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- Parents' Choice Approved Award Winner
- Parents' Choice Award
- Read Aloud/Comstock Book Award
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Nominee
- Volunteer State Book Award Master List (TN)
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Description
Who ever heard of a girl glassblower?
In Mexico, where the sun is called el sol and the moon is called la luna, a little girl called Elena wants to blow into a long pipe...and make bottles appear, like magic.
But girls can't be glassblowers. Or can they?
Join Elena on her fantastic journey to Monterrey -- home of the great glassblowers! -- in an enchanting story filled with magic realism.
In Mexico, where the sun is called el sol and the moon is called la luna, a little girl called Elena wants to blow into a long pipe...and make bottles appear, like magic.
But girls can't be glassblowers. Or can they?
Join Elena on her fantastic journey to Monterrey -- home of the great glassblowers! -- in an enchanting story filled with magic realism.
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