Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Gabriela, Clove and CinnamonBy: Jorge Amado Series: Vintage International Ilhus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendona discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all Gabriela herselfwill be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has

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透過生活中容易見到的場景，讓孩子更有貼近的感覺，也可以讓孩子充滿好奇心和增強觀察力。透過比較和閱讀的過程，鍛練孩子的注意力與集中力。

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