THEODORE TAYLOR is the author of many award-winning middle grade and young adult novels, including The Bomb, Air Raid!--Pearl Harbor, and the modern classic The Cay, along with its prequel-sequel Timothy of the Cay. He lives in Laguna Beach, California.
In The Maldonado Miracle by Theodore Taylor, author of The Cay, 12-year-old Jose Maldonado travels alone across the border from Mexico to the United States to reach his father. On the way, he hides out in a church, where blood from his wounded shoulder drips onto a statue of Jesus. When the town is transformed by this "miracle," Jose finds it difficult to tell the truth. First published in 1973, this story inspired a Showtime movie with the same title. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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