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When thirteen-year-old Rose Solomon's brother, Abe, left El Paso, he told the family he was heading to Brooklyn. But Rose discovers the truth the day she picks up the newspaper at Pickens General Store and spies a group photograph captioned The Southwestern Scourge of 1915! There stands Abe alongside none other than Pancho Villa and his army! Rose is furious about Abe's lie; fearful for his safety; and worried about her traditional parents who, despite their strict and observant ways, do not deserve to have an outlaw for a son. Rose knows the only way to set things right is to get Abe home, but her clandestine plan to contact him goes awry when she is kidnapped by Villa's revolutionaries and taken to his hideaway. Deep in the desert, amidst a richly rendered assortment of freedom-seekers that includes an impassioned young reporter, two sharp-shooting sisters with a secret past, and Dorotea, Villa's tyrannical young charge, Rose sees no sign of Abe and has no hope of release.
About the Author
Viva, Rose! was named a 2017 National Jewish Book Award Debut Fiction finalist, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for older readers, and a 2018 Spur Award finalist for Juvenile Fiction.Susan Krawitz has managed a rock climbing instruction school, taught preschool, written and edited for newspapers, websites, and magazines, and currently works as a freelance book editor. She lives on an old farmstead in New York's Hudson Valley where she obsesses over a large garden and a small flock of chickens. Viva, Rose! is her first novel.
