The Acorn Eaters

An award-winning story by a Dutch author is set in the peasant country of Andalusia after the Spanish Civil War, when a poor youth struggles to help feed his family under the gun of the landowners.

Related: Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Spain

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    string(13) "9780374300296"
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  ["Author"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(12) "Pelgrom, Els"
  }
  ["Translator"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(32) "Prins, Johanna H. and Johanna W."
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  ["Subject/Theme"]=>
  array(2) {
    [0]=>
    string(14) "Race relations"
    [1]=>
    string(9) "Apartheid"
  }
  ["pubdate"]=>
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    [0]=>
    string(4) "1997"
  }
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