Echoes of Grace
A tragic accident in the young lives of sisters, Graciela (Grace) and Mercedes (Mercy) Torres, sets off a chain of events in which Grace flounders to restore her relationship with her sister while swimming against a current of strange, bewildering echoes. Flashbacks, premonitions, and visitations fr...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A tragic accident in the young lives of sisters, Graciela (Grace) and Mercedes (Mercy) Torres, sets off a chain of events in which Grace flounders to restore her relationship with her sister while swimming against a current of strange, bewildering echoes. Flashbacks, premonitions, and visitations from the other side all weave a mysterious tapestry that weighs heavily on Grace's shoulders as she tries to navigate memories of a time three years earlier when she ran away from home and lost a week of her life. In the present-amidst the mundanities of college homework and dating-Grace tries to figure out if the things happening in her world are memories or premonitions, warnings of things yet to unfold. As she recovers time lost, Grace comes closer to reconciling with Mercy, even as she remembers, bit by bit, the horrible thing that happened to her when she spent a week with her maternal grandmother in Mexico-a grandmother she had been told was long gone. The things her regained memory reveals shed light on old family secrets. |
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| Physical Description: | 375 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 14 and up. Grades 10-12. |
| ISBN: | 9781643794259 1643794256 |
| Author Notes: | Guadalupe García McCall was raised in Eagle Pass, Texas. Guadalupe is the award-winning author of several young adult novels, some short stories for adults, and many children's poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpré Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among many other accolades. As an educator, Guadalupe taught K-12 in San Antonio, Texas for decades before she moved to the Pacific Northwest to teach undergraduate courses at George Fox University. She is now a full-time author/part-time educator and lives with her husband in South Texas, where she keeps close ties with family and friends. Find her online at ggmccall.com. |
