Under the mesquite

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The work Under the mesquite represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Under the mesquite

Statement of responsibility

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Creator

• trueMcCall, Guadalupe Garcia

Subject

• trueResponsibility
• Family life -- Texas -- Fiction
• trueImmigrant families
• trueMexican American teenage girls
• Mexican Americans -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction
• Mexican Americans -- Texas | Fiction
• Responsibility -- Fiction
• Responsibility -- Juvenile fiction
• trueResponsibility in teenage girls
• trueTeenage girls
• trueTexas
• Texas -- Fiction
• Texas -- Juvenile fiction
• trueActing
• Cancer -- Fiction
• Cancer -- Juvenile fiction
• trueChildren of people with cancer
• Coming of age -- Fiction
• Coming of age -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Texas -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• trueTexas
• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueMoving

Character

• trueCulturally diverse

Award

• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2011
• Pura Belpre Award for Narrative, 2012.
• Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2013.
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2012
• Notable Books for a Global Society, 2012.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

990

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.M47833752

LC item number

Und 2011

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 7
• 12

Target audience

adolescent