The tequila worm

By Viola Canales

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

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."