Treasure of the World

Title: Treasure of the World Author: Sullivan, Tara ISBN: 9780525516989 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers Published: 2022 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Children's Chapter Books 1421302 Publisher Description: A young girl must find a way to help her family survive in a desolate and impoverished Bolivian silver mining community in this eye-opening tale of resilience. Now in paperback. Twelve-year-old Ana wants nothing more than to escape the future set for her and her classmates in her small mining village. Boys her age are beginning to leave school to become silver miners and girls her age are destined to one day be their wives. So when her oft-ill eleven-year-old brother is forced by their demanding father to start work in the mines, Ana gives up her dreams of school to volunteer in his place. But the world of silver mining is dark and dangerous and the men who work there don't wa