Grab Hands and Run

Infobox Book
name = Grab Hands and Run


author = flagicon|United States Frances Temple
country = United States
language = English
genre = Fiction
publisher = Publisher: HarperTrophy
release_date = May 1995
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 165

Grab Hands and Run is a fictional adaptation of a true story written by Frances Temple. The book is written at a fourth grade level aimed at audiences 8-10. [ [http://mercury.educ.kent.edu/database/eureka/detail_book.cfm?BooksID=234 Eureka! ] ] The author is actually involved in the story as she once shelter the refuges the book writes about. [http://books.google.com/books?id=mnWvPf_ipYEC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=grab+hands+and+run&source=web&ots=dMGKnmjF1w&sig=QN2HMADfvoRITTyf5YfdXdlzt9Q#PPA53,M1]

Plot details

The story focuses on the 12-year-old protagonist Felipe and his younger sister Romy who flee from the difficult political situation in El Salvador because their father has disappeared. The family had developed a contingency plan for such an event previously which called for them to flee to Canada, and so they do through Guatemala, Mexico and the United States. The book focuses on the children having to learn not to provoke the anger of government officials and other people in power. As their trip progresses they realize how precious a home and an intact family is. They finally make it to Canada but they find out from a religious man that their father was killed. [ [http://www.uni-giessen.de/anglistik/tefl/Projects/mcyal98/ghar.htm Department of English] ]

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