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Sussex teen author wins International Latino Book Award

Betsy PriceHeadlines

Máximo César Castellanos Máximo César Castellanos wrote his first book when he was 6. But it’s the book he wrote when he was 11 — the first in a five-book series — that has won international acclaim. Castellenos, now 13 and a seventh-grader at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School in nearby Berlin, Maryland, was chosen as the Gold Medal Winner in …