"When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro's army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches to high heaven, and her father roars like a lion. Lora has barely been outside of Havana--why would she throw away her life in a remote shack with no electricity, sleeping on a hammock? but Lora is stubborn. Didn't they teach her to help those in need? Lora's abuela takes her side, making her promise to come...