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The block captain's daughter / Demetria Martinez.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A7333337 B57 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martínez, Demetria, 1960-
- Series:
- Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 11.
- Chicana & Chicano visions of the Américas ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Mexico--Fiction.
- New Mexico.
- Mexican Americans--Fiction.
- Mexican Americans.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 97 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Guadalupe Anaya is pregnant and as the newly elected block captain of Sunset Street she is in charge of raising awareness of safety in her Albuquerque neighborhood. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe's dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom.
- Notes:
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780806142913
- 080614291X
- OCLC:
- 773493598
- Publisher Number:
- 40021346700
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