by Erika L. Sánchez
Recommended by Todd Nesloney
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Young Adult, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents_x0092_ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga_x0092_s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Young Adult, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
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Consider The Giver by Lois Lowry. Recommended by 6 sources.
“Lois Lowry uses spare, plain prose to center a single conceit: a supposedly ideal community that controls emotion and memory. The story follows twelve-year-old Jonas as small revelations accumulate into a sharp ethical dilemma, which makes the book useful for conversation and classroom discussion. Its limitation is emotional restraint and deliberate vagueness—many details and characters stay underdefined—so readers who want rich sensory worldbuilding or a tidy conclusion may feel unsatisfied.”
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