Booklist: Poetry Honoring Culture and Linguistic Creativity
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Booklist: Poetry Honoring Culture and Linguistic Creativity

A Movie in My Pillow/Una pelicula en mi almohada

By Jorge Argueta, Illustrated by Elizabeth Gomez

book cover-A Movie in My Pillow/Una película en mi almohada

With a culturally rich collection of both joyous and painful autobiographical poems, Jorge Argueta takes readers through the experience of leaving his home during the Salvadoran Civil War without most of his relatives. Although he and his…

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