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Author Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

Title Diego, run! / Deborah Ellis
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2007
©2006

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 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Ell/Dru  AVAILABLE
Description 191 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Diego lives in a prison in cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents are locked up, but his is free to come and go : to school and to the market, working as a "taxi", doing errands for other prisoners. But the future looks grim unless he can make money, fast. His friend mando has a plan... Diego and Mando are soon deep in the jungle, on their way to a fortune. But their plan hits terrible trouble, and Diego must risk everything if he wants to see his family again
Notes For secondary school students
Audience For secondary school students
Notes Originally published Canada : Groundwood Books, 2006
Subject Cocaine industry -- Bolivia -- Juvenile fiction.
Child labor -- Bolivia -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Young adult fiction
ISBN 9781741751550 (paperback)