Under the mesquite /
Lupita, the oldest of eight siblings, is used to taking the lead - and staying busy behind the scenes to help keep everyone together. But when she discover Mami has been diagnosed with cancer, Lupita is terrified by the possibility of losing her mother, the anchor of their close-knit Mexican America...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Lee & Low Books,
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New York : [2011] |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2013-2014
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Table of Contents:
- The weight of words
- Remembering
- Crossing borders
- Give us this day
- Cut like a diamond
- Words on the wind
- Names, Spanish words, and cultural references
- Part one The weight of words: The story of us : Eagle Pass, Texas, freshman year of high school
- Thorns
- Something's different
- Chismosa
- The talk
- The sacrifice.
- Part two. Remembering: Six years old, Pedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
- The gift of words
- Uprooted
- En los estados unidos
- Sisters
- Bebés.
- Part three. Crossing borders: After the storm : summer after freshman year
- Elotes : Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, sophomore year
- Las telenovelas
- Drama
- Quinceañera
- Señorita To be or not to be Mexican
- Swimming the Rio Grande : San Vincente, Coahuila, Mexico
- The notebook
- On the way
- A moment in the spotlight.
- Part four. Give us this day: News : junior year
- Mami's roses
- The actress
- What's gone
- A simple plan
- Mother, may I : summer after junior year
- Making tortillas
- A mesquite in the rose garden
- Pomegranates, perch, and roasted doves
- Ice cream from heaven.
- Part five. Cut like a diamond: Mami's home : senior year
- Good-bye to Mexico : San Vincente, Coahuila, Mexico
- Apparition
- The natural
- At the hospital
- A night to remember
- Mi madre.
- Part six . Words on the wind: Poems from under the mesquite
- Changes : summer after senior year
- At abuelita's house : Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
- Homecoming
- Permission
- The bus ticket
- In the parking lot : Alpine, Texas.
- Acknowledgments
- Names, Spanish words, and cultural references.