Rhoads, Dorothy,

The corn grows ripe /by Dorothy Rhoads ; illustrated by Jean Charlot. - New York : Puffin Books, (c)1993. - 88 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. - Puffin Newbery library .

"First published in the United States of America by the Viking Press, 1956"--T.p. verso.

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



Newbery honor book, 1957.

92024888


Mayas--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of Mexico--Juvenile literature.

PZ7 / .C676 1993 PZ7