All the stars denied /
1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl. Resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of Tejanos in their town of Monteseco...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc.,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 1931. In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl. Resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of Tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of repatriation efforts to send Mexicans back to Mexico whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not. Dumped across the border and separated from half her family, Estrella must figure out a way to survive and care for her mother and baby brother. |
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| Item Description: | "A companion novel to Shame the Stars." |
| Physical Description: | 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-309). |
| ISBN: | 9781620142813 1620142813 |