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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1988
  • Latest Book:
    October 1996
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Book List in Order: 4 titles



  • Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government....



  • When Martha's father uses his newspaper to criticize the dictator of their Central American country, her family is taken to a remote pueblo in the Andes and put under house arrest. They face isolation, boredom, hunger and fear and she wonders if her ...



  • Camilia Draper, an American teenager still feeling guilt and loss about her mother's death, travels to her mother's birthplace in Colombia for a ceremony celebrating her famous grandfather, about whom she will learn some disquieting and revelatory fa...



  • Accustomed to his impoverished life in Bogota+a7, Colombia, Juan Guillermo resents his family and is delighted when a visit to his wealthy grandmother introduces him to the comforts of money, but he learns a savage truth that puts his family in dange...




Award-Winning Books by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

The Honorable Prison
1989 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lyll Becerra de Jenkins has published 4 books.

Lyll Becerra de Jenkins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, So Loud a Silence, was published in October 1996.

The first book by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins, The Honorable Prison, was published in February 1988.

No. Lyll Becerra de Jenkins does not write books in series.