The Queen of Water -

Laura Resau, Maria Virginia Farinango

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

2011

368 páginas

12h 16m

ISBN-10: 0385738978

Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta—stupid Indian—by members of the ruling class of mestizos, or Spanish descendants. When seven-year-old Virginia is taken from her village to be a servant to a mestizo couple, she has no idea what the future holds.