Shadow of a Bull

Description:

Maia Wojciechowska's family fled Poland during World War II and emigrated to the United States after the war. She worked as an undercover detective, a motorcycle racer, a translator for Radio Free Europe, and a bullfighter before turning to writing. She was a friend of Ernest Hemingway, who said she knew more about bullfighting than any other woman. [from Amazon.com]"Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness: how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting for the day Manolo will fulfill his father's legacy? But Manolo has a secret he dares to share with no one: he is a coward, without afición, the love of the sport that enables a bullfighter to rise above his fear and face a raging bull. As the day when he must enter the ring approaches, Manolo finds himself questioning which requires more courage: to follow in his father's legendary footsteps or to pursue his own destiny?"

subjects: Bullfights,  Coming of age,  Fathers and sons,  Fiction,  Fiction..,  Juvenile fiction,  Newbery Medal,  Social life and customs,  Bildungsromans,  Newbery medal books,  Children: Grades 3-4,  Large type books,  Children's fiction,  Bullfights, fiction,  Spain, fiction,  Boys, fiction

Places: Spain

Times: 20th century