Summer of the mariposas
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tu Books,
[2012]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2014-2015
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| Summary: | In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more. |
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| Item Description: | Novel. |
| Physical Description: | 355 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Young Adult. |
| ISBN: | 9781620140109 1620140101 9781600609008 1600609007 |
| 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. David Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from South Texas, where he teaches literature and Nahuatl at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. Among his forty published books are the multiple-award-winning They Call Me Güero , Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico , and The Prince & the Coyote , as well as the series Garza Twins, 13th Street, and Clockwork Curandera. He is the current president of the Texas Institute of Letters. |
