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El Silbón de Venezuela, by Craig Klein Dexemple

El Silbón de Venezuela, by Craig Klein Dexemple

$ 9.00

El Silbón (The Whistler) is an intriguing novelette that first-year Spanish students can easily grasp. Written in the present tense, the book is based on a list of 650-plus nouns, verbs, adjectives, and common phrases covered in most beginning Spanish courses.El Silbón centers on Henry, a boy from small-town Minnesota with a charming fascination with all things cowboy. Unable to realize his dream of becoming a cowboy, Henry is despondent until he meets Ricardo, a schoolmate from the Venezuelan llanos—a great grassy plain extending from Venezuela and Colombia. Invited to visit Ricardo’s home in the llanos, Henry encounters a strange world with different foods like plantain bananas; different animals like capibaras, the world’s largest rodent; and the llaneros, the tough, hardy cowboys of the Venezuelan plains. But Henry’s innocent encounter with the exotic ends one night when he sees El Silbón, a tall, gaunt creature and one of the most feared ghosts in Venezuelan folklore.

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Carla Tarini
Great story!

This is the second book I’ve read by this author and I can’t wait to read all his other books. I was completely engaged in this eerie plot.

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Rachel
Creepy!

This story is seriously creepy! Each year one or two of my 6th grade students pick up this book, understand it, and enjoy it. The ending was scary!

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