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A deaf and dumb girl growing up in a small Spanish village finds in the church a priceless statue of the Christ Child which becomes the one thing that will not reject her affection.
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Andalucía, in the southern part of Spain, is the setting Maia Wojciechowska has chosen for A Single Light. As in her earlier Newbery Award winning book, Shadow of a Bull, the background becomes an integral part of the story, almost a character itself.
The story is deceptively simple. In the poor village of Almas, a deaf-and-dumb girl finds a priceless statue in the church. How the girl and the statue change the villagers' lives is told in terms of a primary necessity of human life: the need to love.
—from the dust jacket
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