The heights

By James, Brian

Subjects: YA, Death, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Mexican Americans, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Prejudices, Death, fiction, Orphans, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Brothers and sisters, Prejudices, fiction

Description: Told from their different points of view, sixteen-year-old Catherine and her adopted Mexican American brother, Henry, agonize over the loss of their uniquely close relationship when their prejudiced older brother and sister-in-law return after a family tragedy, determined to drive Henry away from the family's San Francisco home.