Cecilia's year

By Susan Gonzales Abraham

Subjects: Fourteen-year-old girls, Hispanic-Americans, Women's role, Family life, fiction, Determination in teenage girls, New Mexico, Families, The Thirties (20th century), Farm life, Teenage girls, Hispanic-American women, Books and reading, Family, Sex role, Mexico, fiction, Ambition in teenage girls, Schools, fiction, Books and reading, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Hispanic-American teenage girls, Sex role, fiction, Hispanic-American families, Schools, Family life

Description: Nearly fourteen and poor, Ceclia Gonzales wants desperately to go to high school and become a teacher until her mother's old-fashioned ideas about a woman's place threaten her dreams.