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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery--the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes--will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panama fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny, and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America. |
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HL 760 Lexile. |
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HL760L Lexile |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Teenagers -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Teenagers -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Fiction.
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Immigrants. |
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Teenagers. |
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Delaware -- Fiction.
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Delaware -- Fiction.
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Delaware. |
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Love stories.
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Electronic books. |
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Love stories Juvenile. |
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Romance fiction.
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Fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Henríquez, Cristina, 1977- Book of unknown Americans New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 9780385350846 (DLC) 2013022215 (OCoLC)849822505 |
| ISBN |
9780385350853 : $45.00 |
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0385350856 : $45.00 |
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