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Title: Child of the Dark by C. M. DeJesus ISBN: 0-451-62294-4 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: September, 1963 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50

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Summary: a famous book about the slums in Brazil
Comment: This book takes place in the late 1950's in the slums (called favela's) in Brazil. The book is actually the diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus who is a poor woman with 3 children all with different fathers. She lives in a shack and sells scrap paper, tin cans, and rags to feed herself & her children. The struggle just to eat and have clean water every day is enormous and it's just so shocking that all these people live like that. Her fight for survival is inspiring. Carolina only went to school through the second grade but she writes really, really well. Her diary ends up getting published (obviously!) and she gets out of the favela for good. They show pictures in the book of her moving out but her diary ends without mentioning it. If you like this book & want to know what happens to Carolina & her family after she moves out of the favela you'll have to read the second one, "I'm Going To Have a Little House".