Cocuyo Ilumina El Camino: Un Diario de 1493 a 1496 (Cocuyo Lights the Way: A Diary from 1493 to 1496)

Es 1493 y Cocuyo, una niña de once años, vive en su pacífica comunidad taína, hasta que los europeos llegan a su isla natal y ponen su mundo patas para arriba. It's 1493, and eleven-year-old Cocuyo lives in her peaceful Taíno community--until Europeans arrive on her island home and turn her world upside down.

Danielle Smith-Llera grew up in coastal Virginia, hearing unforgettable tales about her Mexican and Irish ancestors. She first moved overseas to teach in international schools in Hungary and Brazil. Life in the U.S. Foreign Service has taken her around the world to live in India, Jamaica, Romania, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Washington, DC. She loves sharing stories--fiction, nonfiction, and a mixture of both--in classrooms, museum exhibits, and, of course, books.