{"id":9270,"date":"2010-05-01T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T12:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=9270"},"modified":"2014-05-19T15:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:46:27","slug":"colibri-by-ann-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/colibri-by-ann-cameron\/","title":{"rendered":"Colibr\u00ed by Ann Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/Colibri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-29094\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/05\/Colibri.jpg\" alt=\"Colibri\" width=\"304\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Even though &#8220;Uncle&#8221; calls her Rosa Garcia, Tzunun Chumil knows her real Mayan name, and that in Spanish, Tzunun is &#8216;colibr\u00ed,&#8217; which means &#8220;hummingbird.&#8221; She knows somewhere that she has a mother and father that once loved her very much, that she lived a happy life filled with colorful joy.<\/p>\n<p>Now at 12, Tzunun wanders from village to village, often leading &#8220;Uncle&#8221; by a stick as he pretends to be blind, misleading the unsuspecting into giving him coins. Her peripatetic existence is lonely, her relationship with &#8220;Uncle&#8221; strained and uncertain, but &#8220;Uncle&#8221; is convinced that she will lead him to a great treasure one day so he will not let her go.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of waiting for riches, &#8220;Uncle&#8221; seeks a fortune teller who not only confirms that Tzunun will guide him to wealth, but more importantly, shows Tzunun a glimpse of the love and nurturing for which she has been hungering for some eight years. In search of his easy life, &#8220;Uncle&#8221; drags Tzunun to a big city where his longtime friend Raimundo has a plan &#8230; and Tzunun has no choice but to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Author <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/author\/anncameron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ann Cameron<\/a>,\u00a0a longtime resident of Guatemala, clearly writes with cultural sensitivity and resonating knowledge. To hear actress Jacqueline Kim narrate the audible version of Cameron&#8217;s memorable novel proves to be a hypnotic, almost addictive experience. Her controlled cadence hauntingly reveals Cameron&#8217;s unflinching glimpses into Guatemala&#8217;s troubled history \u2013 of massacres, colonialism, the kidnapping of young children for international adoption \u2013 presented just right for younger readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though &#8220;Uncle&#8221; calls her Rosa Garcia, Tzunun Chumil knows her real Mayan name, and that in Spanish, Tzunun is &#8216;colibr\u00ed,&#8217; which means &#8220;hummingbird.&#8221; She knows somewhere that she has a mother and father that once loved her very much, that she lived a happy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,198,30,31],"tags":[2975,84,6608,2976,58,10,36,2977,39],"class_list":["post-9270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-latin-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-young-adult-readers","tag-ann-cameron","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-colibri","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-girl-power","tag-jacqueline-kim","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colibr\u00ed by Ann Cameron - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/colibri-by-ann-cameron\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colibr\u00ed by Ann Cameron - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even though &#8220;Uncle&#8221; 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