Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother’s last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith.

Featured in WOW Review Volume IX, Issue 3.

• ISBN: 9780553537925
• Author: Acioli, Socorro
• Translator: Hahn, Daniel
• Published: 2016 , Delacorte
• Themes: Fathers and sons, Homelessness and poverty, Supernatural
• Descriptors: Brazil, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
• No. of pages: 192