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01 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, South American, Translation

If the writing is a bit stilted and uneven in this middle grade novel, Ana Maria Machado – one of Brazil's preeminent writers for children – has a plausible excuse. Her fictional writer/narrator here is a schoolboy named Mariano who is "only writing – or trying to write –...