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Los ojos de Carmen

by Verónica Moscoso; edited by Blaine Ray and Contee Seely

A novella for 3rd-year high school students. A 16-year-old American boy wants to enter a photography contest. He goes to Ecuador to visit his Ecuadorian-American relatives. While there, he must deal with various culturally challenging situations. On a day trip he meets Carmen, a girl with exceptional eyes. He wants to photograph her, but... Moscoso is Ecuadorian and the author of Historias con sabor a sueño, which was published in Ecuador.