The book is called "The Pearl" and is written by John Stein-beck. It is a realistic fiction because most of the things it talks about could very well happen. The story takes place in a village that dives for pearls for a living called La Paz. At the beginning Coyotito (Kino's son) was bit by a scorpion and was thought to die when taken to the town doctor who knew Kino had no way to …showed first 75 words of 783 total…

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