Finalista del National Book Award
El ganador de la Medalla Newbery aporta humor y sensibilidad a esta historia sobre un ni隳 de la 廧oca de la Guerra Civil que lucha por hacer lo correcto frente a los males m嫳 crueles de la historia.
Charlie, un ni隳 de doce a隳s, no pasa por su mejor momento: su padre, un aparcero, acaba de morir, y el temible Cap'n Buck --el hombre m嫳 temido de Possum Moan, Carolina del Sur-- ha venido a cobrar una deuda. Temiendo por su vida, Charlie hace un trato con Cap'n Buck y accede a buscar a unas personas acusadas de robarle al capit嫕 y a su jefe. No parece un mal acuerdo para Charlie... hasta que se encuentra cara a cara con los fugitivos y descubre qui幯es son en realidad. Dividido entre su conciencia y su instinto de supervivencia, Charlie deber?decidir qu?hacer, y pronto. Es solo cuesti鏮 de tiempo antes de que Cap'n Buck descubra la verdad.
"Una historia tan cruda como cautivadora para lectores de mediana edad, contada con un profundo sentido de empat燰. Little Charlie es producto de su crianza en el Sur, pero en las h墎iles manos de Curtis descubre que el mundo no es como 幨 cre燰... Christopher Paul Curtis vuelve a brillar." --Historical Novel Society
"Una incorporaci鏮 viva y compleja, muy en el estilo caracter疄tico de Curtis, a la ficci鏮 hist鏎ica ambientada en esa 廧oca." --Kirkus Reviews
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A National Book Award Finalist
The Newberry Medalist brings humor and heart to this story of a Civil War-era boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils.
Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died, and Cap'n Buck--the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina--has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of stealing from the cap'n and his boss. It's not too bad of a bargain for Charlie . . . until he comes face-to-face with the fugitives and discovers their true identities. Torn between his guilty conscience and his survival instinct, Charlie needs to figure out his next move--and soon. It's only a matter of time before Cap'n Buck catches on.
"This is a compelling and ugly story for middle-grade readers told with genuine care. Little Charlie is a product of his Southern upbringing, yet in Curtis's skillful hands he learns the world is not as he'd thought . . . Christopher Paul Curtis does it again." --Historical Novel Society
"A characteristically lively and complex addition to the historical fiction of the era from Curtis." --
Kirkus Reviews
