The head of the saint

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Label

The head of the saint

Statement of responsibility

Socorro Acioli ; translated by Daniel Hahnl

Creator

• true Unknown Label
• Acioli, Socorro

Contributor

• Hahn, Daniel
• true Unknown Label

Author

• true Unknown Label
• Acioli, Socorro

Translator

• Hahn, Daniel
• true Unknown Label

Subject

• trueTeenage boys
• truePrayer
• trueSkeptics
• trueFaith
• trueHomeless teenagers
• trueAnthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
• trueMagical realism
• trueSupernatural
• trueStatues
• Homeless persons -- Fiction
• Supernatural -- Fiction
• trueTranslations -- Portuguese to English
• Faith -- Fiction
• trueBrazil
• Prayer -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231 -- Fiction
• trueFathers and sons
• truePoverty

Genre

• Fiction
• trueTranslations
• trueMagical realism

Language

• eng
• por
• eng

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

Member of

• trueCabeça do santo
• A cabeça do santo

Tone

• trueAtmospheric

Writing style

• trueLyrical

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

USBBY Outstanding International Book, 2017.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

880

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.1.A22

LC item number

He 2016

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880

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Target audience

adolescent