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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. An author's note and several Neruda poems are appended. Pura Belpre Author Award Winner 2011. AR 4.6. RC 3.7. Lexile 650. GR level V IL 4-8. | |