The winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, Rigoberta Menchu is a poor, uneducated Mayan woman who has helped her native people fight oppression in Guatemala and who has told the world about their suffering. Part of the Rainbow Biography series, the account is quiet, but it tells of violence and poverty and amazing courage. Beginning with Menchu’s childhood as a field laborer, her personal story is woven together with that of her Indian people and their harsh dislocation at the hands of the landowners and the brutal army. Her father was imprisoned, tortured, and finally murdered for his leadership role in the resistance; so were her mother and her brothers and sisters. Yet, like her father, she has led her people in nonviolent resistance and has given them a voice.

Related: Guatemala, Latin America, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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• ISBN: 9780525675242
• Authors: De Anda, Rube´n; Targ Brill, Marlene
• Published: 1996, Dutton Juvenile
• Themes: action, human rights, oppression, Poverty, Resistance
• Descriptors: Guatemala, Latin America, Nonfiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 64