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I am a taxi / Deborah Ellis.

by Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

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Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, c2006.

Coca industry -- Bolivia -- Juvenile fiction.

Bolivia -- Juvenile fiction.

Ellis, Deborah, 1960- Cocalero novels.

9780888997357 (pb.)

0888997353 (pb.)

9780888997364 (2006 Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press pbk.)

0888997361 (2006 Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press pbk.)

205 p. ; 18 cm.

Twelve-year-old Diego ends up at the San Sebastián Women's Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia when his parents are falsely accused and convicted of smuggling drugs during a trip into town to sell their coca crop. While his parents remain locked up, he can go to school, and help out by babysitting his sister and selling his mother's knitted goods at the local market. He also runs errands as a 'taxi' to earn money to help pay for food and the rent on their tiny cell.

Ages: 10-14 Quill & Quire.

Canadian fiction, Juvenile.

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