Hill of Fire

I feel like I have no choice but to rate a book that literally haunted my dreams for my childhood five stars. What is more terrifying than a volcano sprouting up out of nowhere? To me as a child, literally nothing. I saw this on Reading Rainbow as a kid and had recurring nightmares for years and year......more

First sentence: Once there was a farmer who lived in Mexico. He lived in a little village, in a house which had only one room. Premise/plot: Pablo's father, a farmer, is always, always saying nothing EVER happens on their farm, in their village. Every day is the same: dull and predictable. But one da......more

Just saw this book come across my desk and was like "OH MY GOSH! I THINK THIS IS THE BOOK!!!" See, I have this memory of being a child reading a book about a Mexican farmer who had a volcano erupt in his field, but I didn't remember anything more. So I read this, and yep! This was it! I didn't love......more

This Reading Rainbow book tells the tale of a farmer who is essentially bored with his mundane life. Everything is the same, he does everything the same, and wears the same things. That is until one day when a volcano erupts out of his farm land and everything changes. This is based on a true story t......more