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The immortal boy

"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--

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Main Author:	Montaña Ibáñez, Francisco (Author)
Other Authors:	Bowles, David (David O.) (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	New York : Levine Querido, [2021]
Subjects:	Families > Young adult fiction. Poverty > Young adult fiction. Fate and fatalism > Young adult fiction. Orphans > Young adult fiction. Colombia > Young adult fiction. Colombia > Bogotá > Young adult fiction. Upside-down books.
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Summary:	"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"-- "Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus vidas se entrelazan jamás te dejará" --
Item Description:	Titles from separate title pages; works issued back-to-back and inverted.
Physical Description:	147, 145 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781646140442 1646140443
Author Notes:	Francisco Montaña Ibáñez is an award-winning author for children and a professor at the National University of Colombia (IIE). The Immortal Boy is his first book translated into English. David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas. Among his multiple award-winning books are Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico , and They Call Me Güero ; he is also the translator of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas . In 2017, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.