
Where the flame trees bloom
General fiction, Biography, Travel and geography, Parenting, Women biography, Literature biography, Customs and cultures
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Children's book author tells of growing up in Cuba with her extended family. She has picked stories from those "hanging in the branches of the trees of (her) childhood." Alma's blind great-grandmother Mina, who sold or gave handmade dolls to… neighbors and gave gifts to her relatives according to their wealth and needs, managed to keep things in balance even though she never learned mathematics. For grades 3-6