The tequila worm

By Viola Canales

Subjects: age:min:12, Neighborhoods, Mexican americans, fiction, lexile:830, award:Pura_Belpre_award, Neighborhood, Family life, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, age:max:15, Mexican Americans, Families, Texas, fiction, grade:min:7, Children's fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Boarding schools, grade:max:9, lexile_range:801-900, Catholics, Family life, fiction, Schools

Description: Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."