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Reviewed on April 1, 2003
Gr 5-8 For those readers unfamiliar with Quetzalc-atl, a Mexican serpent god, or the Day of the Dead, The Ancestors Are Singing may be a good launching pad into a discussion of Mexican culture. Johnston's poems give readers glimpses of a rainy street in Mexico City (complete with a "silver skein of cars") to the mouth of an erupting volcano, blowing out...Log In or Sign Up to Read More