César

Born in 1927 in Yuma, Arizona, César Chavez lived the hard-scrabble life of a migrant worker during the Depression. Although his mother wanted him to get an education, César left school after eighth grade to work. He grew to be a charismatic leader and founded the National Farm Workers Association, an organization that fought for basic rights for farm workers. In powerful poems and dramatic stylized illustrations, Carmen T. Bernier-Grand and David Díaz pay tribute to Chavez's legacy helping migrant workers improve their lives by doing things by themselves for themselves.

Más de 70.000 mujeres cada año son engañadas y sometidas a esclavitud sexual sólo en Europa. Este es un dato extraído de los periódicos, pero en esta novela todas esas mujeres se resumen en Polina, una adolescente nacida en Moldavia cuyas ilusiones comienzan a desmoronarse en un tétrico sótano de Estambul. Muy lejos de los sollozos de la pequeña, la historia comienza con la desaparición de los cinco gatos de la viuda Hergueta en un barrio residencial de la periferia de Madrid. Los vecinos rusos resultan los primeros sospechosos, ya que su actitud es huraña y misteriosa. Gracias a...

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