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My Sweet Orange Tree (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781805332114)
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xA WORLDWIDE CLASSIC OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: a moving, life-affirming childhood story from Brazil Meet Zez? - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness.
When he grows up he wants to be a poet with a bow-tie but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood and inventing friends to play with. Zez?'s pranks can be a little too mischievous - at least, so say his parents, who punish him harshly when he misbehaves. His father is out of work and the family unhappiness falls hardest on Zez?, the second-youngest of seven siblings. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change. With the help of Pinkie, the talking orange tree, Manuel, who gives Zez? rides in his car, and with his own endless supply of resourcefulness and imagination, Zez? will triumph over any adversity.
This worldwide classic of children's literature has never been out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968. Translated into an astonishing number of languages, it has won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to Turkey, Poland to Thailand, and many other countries too, with its inimitable blend of the heart-rending and the whimsical.
Author: Jos? Mauro de Vasconcelos
ISBN-10: 1805332112
ISBN-13: 9781805332114
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 508770 / My Sweet Orange Tree
When he grows up he wants to be a poet with a bow-tie but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood and inventing friends to play with. Zez?'s pranks can be a little too mischievous - at least, so say his parents, who punish him harshly when he misbehaves. His father is out of work and the family unhappiness falls hardest on Zez?, the second-youngest of seven siblings. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change. With the help of Pinkie, the talking orange tree, Manuel, who gives Zez? rides in his car, and with his own endless supply of resourcefulness and imagination, Zez? will triumph over any adversity.
This worldwide classic of children's literature has never been out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968. Translated into an astonishing number of languages, it has won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to Turkey, Poland to Thailand, and many other countries too, with its inimitable blend of the heart-rending and the whimsical.
Author: Jos? Mauro de Vasconcelos
ISBN-10: 1805332112
ISBN-13: 9781805332114
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.9
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 508770 / My Sweet Orange Tree
By Jos? Mauro de Vasconcelos
xJos? Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer, born to an indigenous mother and a Portuguese father, who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, as a labourer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Alison Entrekin is an acclaimed translator from Portuguese, whose translations include Budapest by Chico Buarque, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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