| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) |
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text file rda |
| Audience |
880 Lexile. |
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880L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.8 6 182102 |
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Accelerated Reader MG+ 5.8 6 182102 |
| Note |
"Originally published in Portuguese as A cabeca di santo by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil in 2014. Subsequently published in English in hardcover by Hot Key Books, London, United Kingdom in 2014. Work published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil/ National Library Foundation." |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Homeless persons -- Fiction.
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Faith -- Fiction.
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Prayer -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Supernatural -- Fiction.
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Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231 -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Hahn, Daniel, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Acioli, Socorro. Head of the saint New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] 9780553537925 (DLC) 2014048063 (OCoLC)902986115 |
| ISBN |
9780553537932 : $50.97 |
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0553537938 : $50.97 |
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