Author

Publication

2006 - Groundwood Books, Toronto, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

51,250 words, Guess

Page Count

205 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveiamtaxi00elli
  • ISBN-100888997353
  • ISBN-100888997361
  • ISBN-139780888997357
  • ISBN-139780888997364
and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006005832
  • OCLC Control Number68815768
  • Better World Books9780888997364
  • Better World Books9780888997357
  • Open LibraryOL24747209M

Classifications

  • DDCjC813/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.E448 I2 2006

Description

For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother’s hand-knitted goods, and to work as a “taxi”, running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister runs away, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando’s plan to make big money, fast. Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The cocalero novels

Other Editions

  • I Am a Taxi (Cocalero Novels #1)Groundwood Books2006-01-01

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