The corn grows ripe

By Dorothy Rhoads

Subjects: Maya children, Farm life, fiction, Corn, Indians of Mexico, Mexico, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Indians of mexico, mayas, fiction, Mayas, Newbery Honor, Juvenile fiction

Description: Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.